Muscle Disorders Flashcards

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Muscular dystrophy

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Skeletal muscles lose strength
This is usually through inheritance and genetic mutations and spontaneous mutations

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Botulism

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Potentially Fatal paralysis caused by a toxin produced by bacterium clostridium botulism

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Cramps

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Painful muscle spasms triggered by strenuous exercise extreme cold dehydration low blood glucose salt imbalance

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Contracture

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Abnormal muscle shortening not caused by caused by nerve stimulation can happen by inability to remove calcium ions from saroplasm.

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Fibromyalgia

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Chronic muscle pain and tenderness’s associated with fatigue of sleep disturbance caused by infectious disease meds or emo or physical trauma

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Crush syndrome

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Shock like state following massive crushing of muscles associated with high fever heart irregularities kidney failure

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Delayed onset muscle soreness

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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

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Myositis

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Muscle inflammation and weakness resulting from infection or and autoimmune disease

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