Sentences with phrase «significant muscle weakness»

Buoyancy also allows for improvement in joint mobility, and the extra support from floatation allows patients with significant muscle weakness to perform actions they could not do on land.

With other SMA types patients can live much longer, but they still suffer significant muscle weakness.

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Around one sixth of people in the UK aged over 75 have vitamin B12 deficiency, which when severe can lead to significant problems in the nervous system including muscle weakness, problems with walking, tiredness, and pins and needles, as well as depression and problems with memory and other important everyday cognitive functions.

Interestingly, CoQ10 seems to have the ability to decrease the muscle aches and weakness that can accompany use of statin drugs — troublesome symptoms that cause a significant amount of patients to stop statin treatment.

My point is that there is irrefutable epidemiological and nutritional survey evidence showing American seniors suffer in statistically significant numbers from protein calorie malnutrition and that this deficiency contributes to muscle atrophy and asthenia (weakness) and that this loss of strength results in an inability to perform activities of daily living that diminish quality of life.

They include, but are not limited to, significant fatigue, muscle weakness, pain, numbness and tingling, spasticity, and challenges to balance, walking, vision, bladder, bowel, speech, swallowing, hearing, and sexual functioning.

Looking closer, I saw that she had significant weakness around her knee that was influencing the way she moved, and leading to a compensatory «gripping» pattern in her pelvic floor muscles to attempt to stabilize her hips and legs during movement.

Progression of disease results in significant muscle Atrophy of limbs and spinal musculature, hind limb weakness, a «bunny hopping» gait, and, in some cases, weakness in all four limbs resulting in an inability to walk.

If the dog has myasthenia gravis, then the drug will cause a significant (though temporary) improvement in the muscle weakness.