Understanding Muscle Weakness Is it harder to get up from your chair, climb the stairs, or open a jar than it used to be? Lots of things can make your muscles lose strength and leave you feeling weak. Sometimes it happens all of a sudden. But muscle weakness is more likely to affect ...
Rapidly dropping pounds is associated with a loss of muscle mass and other undesirable effects—including looking older.
One of the most common causes is loss of muscle mass. This can occur naturally with aging, leading to lower creatinine levels in older adults. It can also be associated with wasting diseases, sudden weight loss, myasthenia gravis, muscular dystrophy, and injuries that force people to take bed...
Partial muscle tears are less common. Usually, an injury of this sort ends with a complete tear in tendons that hold the pectoralis major muscle to the bone. What Are the Symptoms? If your pectoralis major muscle or tendon tears or becomes injured, you might feel sudden pain or a tearing...
can cause sudden weakness in the arms or legs, loss of muscle tone, and loss of reflexes. The condition mainly affects young children. Most children have a mild respiratory illness or fever caused by a viral infection about one to four weeks before developing symptoms of acute flaccid myelitis...
You might need to be tested for low testosterone if you have erectile dysfunction (ED), a very low sex drive, low sperm count, loss of body hair, decrease of muscle mass, and osteoporosis. Conditions other than low testosterone could be the underlying cause of one’s symptoms. A doctor ...
I was at the Duke Marine Lab staring at a chunk of dredged-up oyster shells in a glass dish, when all of a sudden a mass of big, black spines obscured my view. I looked up from the microscope to see a creature with a round body the size of a nickel and a flurry of long, ...
What causes chronic leg swelling? Let’s say that your leg swelling didn’t come on all of a sudden. Instead, it has been developing gradually over a longer period of time (weeks to months). This is chronic leg swelling. Let’s review some typical causes of chronic leg swelling. ...
“the most common symptoms are sudden weakness or numbness on one side of the body or face; loss of balance and coordination; confusion, trouble speaking or understanding new difficulties seeing in one or both eyes sudden severe headache with no known cause drowsiness, confusion, seizures and los...
Causes of Orthostatic Hypotension You're more likely to be affected when you're older. As you age, the cells in yourheartandarteriesthat keep your blood pressure steady respond more slowly. And you're more likely to be takingmedicationfordiabetesorheart disease, which can also play a role. ...