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Muscle Disorders

Your muscles help you move and help your body work. Different types of muscles have different jobs. There are many problems that can affect muscles. Muscle disorders can cause weakness, pain or even paralysis.

Causes of muscle disorders include:

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Results 1 - 10 of 5,195 for muscle disease
  1. Muscle Disorders (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... muscular dystrophy Some cancers Inflammation, such as myositis Diseases of nerves that affect muscles Infections Certain medicines Sometimes the cause of muscle ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/muscledisorders.html - Health Topics
  2. Rippling muscle disease 
    Rippling muscle disease is a condition in which the muscles are unusually sensitive to movement or pressure (irritable). The muscles ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/rippling-muscle-disease - Genetics
  3. Exercising with a Muscle Disease (Muscular Dystrophy Association) - PDF  
    Neuromuscular Disorders/Living With ... Neuromuscular Disorders ... Muscular Dystrophy Association ... muscular dystrophy; exercise with a disability; neuromuscular ...
    https://www.mda.org/.../files/MDA_Quest_Excercise_Package_2009.pdf - External Health Links
  4. Early-onset myopathy with fatal cardiomyopathy 
    ... myopathy with fatal cardiomyopathy (EOMFC) is an inherited muscle disease that affects the skeletal muscles, which are used ... usually become apparent in childhood, after the skeletal muscle abnormalities. The heart disease worsens quickly, and it often causes heart failure ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/...-onset-myopathy-with-fatal-cardiomyopathy - Genetics
  5. Propranolol (Cardiovascular) 
    ... of tremor, and hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (a heart muscle disease). Propranolol is also used to prevent angina (chest ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a682607.html - Drugs and Supplements
  6. CAV3 gene 
    ... have no muscle weakness or other symptoms of muscle disease. CAV3 gene mutations that cause isolated hyperCKemia lead ... mutations have been identified in people with rippling muscle disease, a condition in which the muscles are unusually ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/gene/cav3 - Genetics
  7. Weakness 
    ... by a slipped disk in the spine) Stroke MUSCLE DISEASES Inherited disorder that involves slowly worsening muscle weakness of the legs and pelvis ( Becker muscular dystrophy ) Muscle disease that involves inflammation and a skin rash ( dermatomyositis ) ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003174.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  8. Isolated hyperCKemia 
    ... normal. While elevated creatine kinase often accompanies various muscle diseases, individuals with isolated hyperCKemia have no muscle weakness ... related distal myopathy, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, rippling muscle disease, and a heart disorder called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Several ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/isolated-hyperckemia - Genetics
  9. Walking abnormalities 
    ... the tibia Peroneal neuropathy Polio Spinal cord injury Muscle diseases The conditions that cause spastic or scissoring gait ... cause muscle weakness and loss of muscle tissue) Muscle disease (myopathy) Spinal muscle atrophy Ataxic, or broad-based, ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003199.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  10. Creatine Kinase: MedlinePlus Medical Test 
    ... injuries from accidents, serious burns , or extreme exercise. Muscle diseases , including: Muscular dystrophy , a group of inherited muscle diseases that weaken muscles over time. Rhabdomyolysis , or "rhabdo," ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/lab-tests/creatine-kinase - Medical Tests
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