Muscle Disorders
Also called: Myopathy
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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
- Injury or overuse, such as sprains or strains, cramps or tendinitis
- A genetic disorder, such as muscular dystrophy
- Some cancers
- Inflammation, such as myositis
- Diseases of nerves that affect muscles
- Infections
- Certain medicines
Sometimes the cause is not known.
- Myopathies (Muscular Dystrophy Association) - PDFAlso in Spanish
- Myopathy
(National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Electromyography (EMG) (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- MRI of the Musculoskeletal System (Radiological Society of North America, American College of Radiology)Also in Spanish
- Needle Biopsy (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Botulinum Toxin Injections: A Treatment for Muscle Spasms (American Academy of Family Physicians)Also in Spanish
- Medicines to Treat Muscle Spasms and Pain (National Center for Farmworker Health, Consumers Union of U.S.) - PDFAlso in Spanish
- Foot Drop (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Congenital Myopathy (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Extra-Abdominal Desmoid Tumors (Aggressive Fibromatoses) (American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons)
- Familial Periodic Paralyses (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Hypotonia (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Metabolic Diseases of Muscle (Muscular Dystrophy Association) - PDFAlso in Spanish
- Mitochondrial Myopathy (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) - Short Summary
- Multifocal Motor Neuropathy (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Myotonia (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- What Is Sarcopenia? (International Osteoporosis Foundation)
- Genetics Home Reference: actin-accumulation myopathy (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: adenosine monophosphate deaminase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Brody myopathy (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: cap myopathy (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: central core disease (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: centronuclear myopathy (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: collagen VI-related myopathy (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: congenital contractural arachnodactyly (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: congenital fiber-type disproportion (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Danon disease (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: distal myopathy 2 (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: early-onset myopathy with fatal cardiomyopathy (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: glycogen storage disease type 0 (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: glycogen storage disease type III (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: glycogen storage disease type IX (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: glycogen storage disease type VII (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: hereditary myopathy with early respiratory failure (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: hypokalemic periodic paralysis (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: inclusion body myopathy 2 (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: inclusion body myopathy with early-onset Paget disease and frontotemporal dementia (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: intranuclear rod myopathy (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: isolated hyperCKemia (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: lactate dehydrogenase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: malignant hyperthermia (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Miyoshi myopathy (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: multiminicore disease (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: myopathy with deficiency of iron-sulfur cluster assembly enzyme (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: myosin storage myopathy (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: myotonia congenita (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: nemaline myopathy (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: neutral lipid storage disease with myopathy (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: paramyotonia congenita (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: phosphoglycerate kinase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: phosphoglycerate mutase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: potassium-aggravated myotonia (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: rippling muscle disease (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: tubular aggregate myopathy (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: X-linked myotubular myopathy (National Library of Medicine)
- Information about Musculoskeletal Conditions (American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Muscular Diseases (National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Rhabdomyolysis (National Institutes of Health)
- Article: What to Believe and Do About Statin-Associated Adverse Effects.
- Article: Neuromuscular electrical stimulation for muscle weakness in adults with advanced...
- Article: LHX4 Gene Alterations: Patient Report and Review of the Literature.
- Muscle Disorders -- see more articles
- Muscular atrophy or wasting -- see more articles
- Bones, Muscles, and Joints: The Musculoskeletal System (Nemours Foundation)Also in Spanish
- Structure of Skeletal Muscle (National Cancer Institute)
- Find a Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician (American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)
- Find a Rheumatologist (American College of Rheumatology)
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Also in Spanish
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Also in Spanish
- EMG (Electromyography) (For Parents) (Nemours Foundation)
- Healthy Muscles Matter (National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)
- Your Muscles (Nemours Foundation)Also in Spanish
- Bones, Muscles, and Joints: The Musculoskeletal System (Nemours Foundation)Also in Spanish
- Caring for muscle spasticity or spasms (Medical Encyclopedia)Also in Spanish
- Compartment syndrome (Medical Encyclopedia)Also in Spanish
- Contracture deformity (Medical Encyclopedia)Also in Spanish
- Creatine phosphokinase test (Medical Encyclopedia)Also in Spanish
- Electromyography (Medical Encyclopedia)Also in Spanish
- Eyelid twitch (Medical Encyclopedia)Also in Spanish
- Hypotonia (Medical Encyclopedia)Also in Spanish
- Muscle aches (Medical Encyclopedia)Also in Spanish
- Muscle atrophy (Medical Encyclopedia)Also in Spanish
- Muscle function loss (Medical Encyclopedia)Also in Spanish
- Muscle twitching (Medical Encyclopedia)Also in Spanish
- Rhabdomyolysis (Medical Encyclopedia)Also in Spanish
- Weakness (Medical Encyclopedia)Also in Spanish
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