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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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  1. Muscle Disorders (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... There are many problems that can affect muscles. Muscle disorders can cause weakness, pain or even paralysis. Causes of muscle disorders include: Injury or overuse, such as sprains or ...
  2. A muscle disorder causes patterns of weakness, loss of muscle tissue, electromyogram (EMG) findings, or biopsy results that suggest a ...
  3. Temporomandibular joint and muscle disorders (TMJ disorders) are problems that affect the chewing muscles and joints that connect your lower jaw to your skull.
  4. ClinicalTrials.gov: Muscular Diseases From the National Institutes of Health (National Institutes of Health)  
    Muscle Disorders/Clinical Trials ... Muscle Disorders
  5. Miyoshi myopathy is a muscle disorder that begins with weakness in the muscles that are located away from the center of the body (distal muscles), such ...
  6. Left ventricular noncompaction is a heart (cardiac) muscle disorder that occurs when the lower left chamber of the heart (left ventricle), which helps the heart pump blood, does not develop correctly. Instead ...
  7. ... along with additional signs and symptoms in other muscle disorders. The features of rigid spine syndrome typically appear ... people with RSMD than in those with other muscle disorders. RSMD is thought to be a rare disorder, ...
  8. ... the muscles (such as trichinosis or toxoplasmosis ) Inherited muscle disorders such as muscular dystrophy or congenital myopathy Metabolic ...
  9. Joint Pain: Many Joints (Merck & Co., Inc.)  
    Joint Disorders/Specifics ... Joint Disorders ... Joint Pain: Many Joints - Learn about the causes, symptoms, diagnosis & treatment from the Merck Manuals - Medical Consumer ...
  10. Heel Injuries and Disorders/Specifics ... Heel Injuries and Disorders ... Medial and Lateral Plantar Nerve Entrapment - Learn about the causes, symptoms, diagnosis & ...
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