Burke Rehabilitation Hospital in White Plains recently earned Electrodiagnostic Laboratory Accreditation with Exemplary Status from the American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM), which demonstrates clinical excellence in electrodiagnostic (EDx) medicine.
Dr. Andrew Abdou, the primary faculty physician providing inpatient and outpatient EDx for evaluation of neuromuscular disorders has been appointed the director of the EDx Service.
During the past three years, Burke has increased its EDx services with three board-certified electrodiagnostic medicine physicians: Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Dr. MooyeonOh-Park, Dr. Benjamin Seidel and Abdou. These physicians diagnose critical illness neuropathy/myopathy, polyneuropathy, traumatic nerve injuries, radiculopathies and entrapment neuropathies.
“The Electrodiagnostic Laboratory at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital/Montefiore Rehabilitation Medicine serves a unique and valuable role in the evaluation of neuromuscular disorders for our inpatients and outpatients,” noted Abdou. “Electrodiagnostic testing provides information about diseases of the muscles and nerves by recording electrical activity and measuring the speed and degree of electrical activity in these tissues. This testing is highly specialized and not commonly available in physicians”™ offices.”
Burke maintains the only AANEM-accredited EDx laboratory in Westchester County and is one of only 27 such labs in New York state.
Founded in 1915 through an endowment from philanthropist John Masterson Burke, Burke is the only hospital in Westchester County dedicated solely to adult rehabilitation medicine.
