Muscle contractures can occur for many reasons, such as paralysis, muscular atrophy, and forms of muscular dystrophy. Fundamentally, the muscle and its...
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In pathology, a contracture is a shortening of muscles, tendons, skin, and nearby soft tissues that causes the joints to shorten and become very stiff...
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Cramp (redirect from Muscle cramps)
distinguished from other cramp-like conditions. Cramps are different from muscle contracture, which is also painful and involuntary, but which is electrically...
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Volkmann's contracture is a permanent flexion contracture of the hand at the wrist, resulting in a claw-like deformity of the hand and fingers. Passive...
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æs/; from Ancient Greek: ψόᾱ, romanized: psóā, lit. 'muscles of the loins') is a long fusiform muscle located in the lateral lumbar region between the vertebral...
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Spasticity (redirect from Muscle spasticity)
case of a severe muscle imbalance leading to contracture. In spastic CP, selective dorsal rhizotomy has also been used to decrease muscle overactivity. Incorporating...
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Stone heart syndrome (redirect from Ischemic myocardial contracture)
ischemic myocardial contracture, is a rare and severe condition characterized by extreme rigidity and hardness of the heart muscle. This condition typically...
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Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (redirect from Benign scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy with early contractures)
progressive impairment of muscles. EDMD affects muscles used for movement (skeletal muscles), causing atrophy, weakness, and contractures. It almost always affects...
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Muscular dystrophy (redirect from Muscle dystrophy)
(abnormal curvature of the spine or the back) Muscle contracture leads to limited range of movement of joints. Muscle spasms Progressive inability to walk Waddling...
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glycogen accumulation in skeletal muscle tissue. This phenotype may also include premature birth and joint contractures. Two reported cases, in 1978 and...
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Myopathy (redirect from Muscle death)
spasm, and contracture can also be associated with myopathy. Myopathy experienced over a long period (chronic) may result in the muscle becoming an abnormal...
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Rhabdomyolysis (redirect from Muscle breakdown)
specific muscle diseases; for instance, McArdle's disease and phosphofructokinase deficiency show a phenomenon called cramp-like contracture. There are...
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy (redirect from Duchenne's muscle dystrophy)
pseudohypertrophy. Muscle fiber deformities and muscle contractures of Achilles tendon and hamstrings can occur, which impair functionality because the muscle fibers...
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from its ability to reduce muscle tone and spasticity and thus prevent or delay the development of fixed muscle contractures. Ataxic cerebral palsy is...
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Arthrogryposis (redirect from Congenital contracture)
Children born with one or more joint contractures have abnormal fibrosis of the muscle tissue causing muscle shortening, and therefore are unable to...
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motion, abnormal flexion neural pattern, and a plantar flexor (calf) muscle contracture, as well as some forms of footwear such as high heeled shoes may contribute...
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Malignant hyperthermia (section Muscle testing)
increased caffeine sensitivity. The earliest signs may include: masseter muscle contracture following administration of succinylcholine, a rise in end-tidal carbon...
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in Traditional Chinese medicine to "relieve rheumatism, alleviate muscle contracture, remove obstructions from collaterals and channels, promote blood...
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Duane syndrome (category Disorders of ocular muscles, binocular movement, accommodation and refraction)
in life, as head position changes (presumably due to progressive muscle contracture).[citation needed] Surgical approaches include: Medial rectus recession...
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any action that requires muscle control is affected. When muscle control is affected such as rigidity or muscle contracture this is known as dystonia...
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Spinal muscular atrophy (section Muscle restoration)
Weak muscles that normally stabilize joints, such as the vertebral column, lead to the development of kyphosis and/or scoliosis and joint contracture. Spine...
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electromyographically silent muscle contractures brought on by high-intensity aerobic activity and anaerobic activity must have a defective muscle glycogen mechanism...
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sign, toe walking, multiple contractures of the joints (especially the fingers: 'Bethlem sign'), skin abnormalities, and muscle weakness (proximal more than...
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to a defective ryanodine receptor leading to huge calcium influx, muscle contracture and increase in metabolism. PSS can manifest itself in the abattoir...
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sudden. Cold causes muscle contraction, which leads to increased previously hidden symptoms. Scoliosis Paraspinal muscle contracture The reduction of lumbar...
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“medicine’s answer to duct tape”, has been found to be effective for muscle spasms and contractures, severe sweating and drooling, migraines, urinary incontinence...
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eliminate muscle spasms Relieve pressure on nerves, especially spinal nerves Prevent or reduce skeletal deformities or muscle contractures To provide...
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Hand (redirect from Extensor digitorum muscle of hands)
and fingers caused by compression of the median nerve, and Dupuytren's contracture, a condition in which fingers bend towards the palm and cannot be straightened...
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symptoms include pain, stiffness, weakness, tingling, numbness, muscle contractures, cramps and other negative sensations, according to Sarno. Symptom...
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purine nucleotides in muscle via adenylate kinase reaction and purine nucleotide cycle), [citation needed] Transient muscle contracture or pseudomyotonia...
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