Muscle Disorders Flashcards
Muscular dystrophy
Skeletal muscles lose strength
This is usually through inheritance and genetic mutations and spontaneous mutations
Botulism
Potentially Fatal paralysis caused by a toxin produced by bacterium clostridium botulism
Cramps
Painful muscle spasms triggered by strenuous exercise extreme cold dehydration low blood glucose salt imbalance
Contracture
Abnormal muscle shortening not caused by caused by nerve stimulation can happen by inability to remove calcium ions from saroplasm.
Fibromyalgia
Chronic muscle pain and tenderness’s associated with fatigue of sleep disturbance caused by infectious disease meds or emo or physical trauma
Crush syndrome
Shock like state following massive crushing of muscles associated with high fever heart irregularities kidney failure
Delayed onset muscle soreness
Pain stiffness and tenderness’s associated from several hours to a day after strenuous exercise associated with trauma to muscles disruption is Myofibril and sarcolema
Myositis
Muscle inflammation and weakness resulting from infection or and autoimmune disease