Neuromuscular Clinic: Facilities

The neuromuscular clinic situated at Rigshospitalet comprises a secretariat, five examining rooms, offices, a lab, a clinical trial unit with as separate staff, and a physiotherapist facility, in which patients can be assessed for muscle strength and a variety of functional tests. About 200 diagnostic muscle biopsies are performed in the clinic every year. Approximately a third of admitted in-patients in the department of neurology have neuromuscular disease, preferentially immune-mediated neuropathies and myasthenia gravis..