Sentences with phrase «weakness of muscles»

Some dogs may experience weakness of the muscles.

They are prone to mood swings, can be suddenly aggressive toward people and other animals, and can suffer weakness of muscles, leading to fatigue and lethargy.

Too much vitamin A can cause bone problems or result in the weakness of muscles.

Unexplained back or knee pain with no accompanying structural defect may indicate weakness of the muscles supporting the pelvis and / or knees.

Distal weakness — weakness of muscles further out on the limbs — is estimated to affect 30 percent of people with hypothyroidism.

This weakness of muscles and lack of energy, might be due to acidosis.

The discomfort is often due to weakness of muscles in the knee, hip and other joints, so muscle - building exercises, such as squats, could be a good line of defense.

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Botulin can lead to botulism — a type of food poisoning that can cause weakness, dizziness, double - vision, muscle weakness, and other side effects.

It is well - known that muscle aches and weakness are prominent symptoms of influenza infection.

Biceps tendinitis (painful inflammation of the biceps tendon) and shoulder instability, in which structures that surround the shoulder joint do not work to maintain the ball within its socket, can all result from fatigue and weakness of the rotator cuff and muscles surrounding the shoulder blade.

One of the most important things for a swimmer to understand is the difference between normal muscle soreness and fatigue versus early symptoms of an injury, such as decreased range of motion, weakness or pain.

Why do so many newborns have muscle tightness or weakness of the neck and / or torso?

Symptoms in infants include constipation, weakness (loss of muscle tone, weak cry, and weak sucking), droopy eyelids, and poor feeding due to difficulty swallowing.

Symptoms of poisoning contain rapid heart rate, elevated body temperature, vomiting, weakness or paralysis of the hindquarters, and muscle tremors.

The baby does not get the opportunity to move and turn his head therefore, tightness and weakness of neck muscles can develop.

Serious and rarer side effects can include muscle cramping, irregular heartbeat, shortness of breath, slurred speech, vision changes, chest pain and weakness on one side of the body.

Other signs of dehydration include a dry mouth, headaches, muscle weakness, dizziness, and constipation.

Diastasis recti is caused by a relative weakness of the fascia between the two rectus abdominus muscles.

Hypotonia or «floppy infant syndrome», which may occur with or without muscle weakness and cause abnormal control of the oropharyngeal structures, resulting in weak or uncoordinated sucking

This type of muscle weakness can cause delayed gross motor skills and lack of coordination.

The end result, which the new study helps to explain, is dysfunction of motor neurons that control muscle along with muscle atrophy and weakness.

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.

The study looks at data on 26 side effects from a trial of approximately 10,000 patients and suggests that cases of muscle pain and weakness are unlikely to be directly caused by statins, but may instead be due to the so - called nocebo effect, where the expectation of side effects can make patients more likely to report them.

He demurred on questions about their reported side effects — among them, muscle weakness, pain, fatigue and cognitive problems — or whether they confer longer or improved quality of life.

Muscular dystrophies are a group of more than 30 genetic diseases characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles that control movement.

It happens due to weaknesses in the structures supporting the bladder and bladder outlet (urethra), mainly the pelvic floor muscles, which then fail to stop urine leaking out when the bladder is under stress, such as when laughing or sneezing, or because of a weakness in the sphincter muscle which normally holds the urethra closed.

The study authors» recommendation of considering an implantable defibrillator even in patients with mild cardiac muscle weakness could introduce a paradigm shift in the approach to treatment.

«Patients with non-ischaemic heart cardiac muscle weakness are assessed with a lower risk of sudden cardiac death and therefore are less likely to receive a primary prevention ICD.»

In their study, Stephanie Cherqui, PhD, associate professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, and colleagues used a transgenic mouse model that expresses two mutant human FXN transgenes, and exhibits the resulting progressive neurological degeneration and muscle weakness.

Ameisen points out, however, that the dosage of 30 milligrams a day given to study participants was far lower than his up to 270 - milligram daily dose, which studies had shown people could tolerate without displaying side effects such as somnolence and muscle weakness.

The animals first showed problems at the age of 6 months, collapsing after exercise due to muscle weakness, for example.

The many possible clinical symptoms include loss of motor control, muscle weakness, heart disease, diabetes, respiratory problems, seizures, vision and hearing problems, diabetes and developmental delays.

Breakdown of communication at the neuromuscular junctions — the points where nerve fibers connect to muscle fibers — is what ultimately leads to muscle weakness and failure.

Mitochondrial defects are often observed in a variety of diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease, and are the hallmarks of a number of genetic mitochondrial disorders whose manifestations range from muscle weakness to organ failure.

Using CRISPR / Cas9, the Hamon Center team was able to correct the genetic defect in a mouse model of DMD and thus prevent the development of features of the disease, which in boys causes progressive muscle weakness and degeneration, often along with breathing and heart complications.

If it seems that many of us have escaped unharmed from such exposure, remember that the symptoms of vapor poisoning can be as subtle as muscle weakness, headache, grumpiness, and difficulty sleeping.

«We also found that increasing muscle weakness — possibly due to decreasing testosterone concentration in the blood — could explain most of this relationship,» said Benjumin Hsu, MPH, the study's principal investigator and a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney.

Muscular Dystrophy is a hereditary condition marked by weakness and progressive wasting of the muscles, while ALS impacts nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement.

«Delirium, muscle weakness among overlooked symptoms of sepsis.»

Clinical symptoms of LNB of the peripheral nervous system may include facial nerve palsy, neurogenic pain radiating along the back into the legs and feet, limb pain, sensory loss, or muscle weakness.

Peripheral nervous system complications of sepsis include two conditions, critical illness polyneuropathy and critical illness myopathy, which cause muscle weakness and inability to wean from a ventilator.

«For nearly 20 years, we've thought that the muscle weakness observed in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy is primarily due to problems in their muscle fibres, but our research shows that it is also due to intrinsic defects in the function of their muscle stem cells,» said Dr. Michael Rudnicki, senior author of the study.

In a final set of experiments, the researchers used necrostatin - 1 to treat mice with axonal damage and hind leg weakness, a telltale sign of axonal demise similar to the muscle weakness that occurs in the early stages of ALS in humans.

Scientists led by John Kuwada, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at the University of Michigan, and Hiromi Hirata of the National Institute of Genetics in Japan originally identified the gene in mutant zebrafish that exhibited severe muscle weakness.

The study, led by Dr Yalda Jamshidi from St George's, University of London and Dr Chiara Manzini from George Washington University, examined the DNA of five individuals who were affected by early onset of a group of conditions including muscle weakness and an inability to stand or walk.

These subprojects will focus on aging - associated diseases (such as Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, muscle weakness) and on various forms of cancer such as neuroblastoma, colon, or breast cancer.

Symptoms of the disease, which typically appear in adolescence or early adulthood, include muscle weakness and decreased muscle size, loss of sensation and deformities in the feet and legs.

«Climb stairs to lower blood pressure and strengthen leg muscles: New study demonstrates effectiveness of stair climbing in helping prevent and treat menopause and age - related vascular complications and muscle weakness.»

Spinal muscular atrophy is a debilitating disease that causes weakness and wasting of the muscles.

Even the weakness of old age may have an inflammatory cause: Ferrucci has found that inflammatory activity breaks down skeletal muscle, leading to the loss of lean muscle mass.