MUSCLE WEAKNESS

MUSCLE WEAKNESS - Muscle weakness happens when your full effort doesn’t produce a normal muscle contraction or movement. It’s sometimes called reduced muscle strength, muscular weakness, or weak muscles. Whether you are ill or simply need rest, short-term muscle weakness happens to nearly everyone at some point. A tough workout, for instance, will exhaust your muscles until you’ve given them a chance to recover with rest.
Many health conditions can cause muscle weakness. Examples include:
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- muscular dystrophies
- hypotonia, a lack of muscle tone that’s usually present at birth
- myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune and muscular disorder
- peripheral neuropathy, a type of nerve damage
- neuralgia, or sharp burning or pain in one or more of your nerves
- polymyositis, or chronic muscle inflammation
- stroke
- polio
- Graves disease
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Lou Gehrig’s disease
- hypothyroidism
- hypercalcemia, or elevated calcium in your blood
- rheumatic fever
- West Nile virus
- botulism, a rare and serious illness caused by Clostridium botulinum bacteria
- prolonged bed rest or immobilization