Muscle disorders, also known as myopathy, can create difficulty for those dealing with certain muscular diseases.
Muscle Disorders
What Are Muscle Disorders?
Which are the causes of Muscle Disorders?
- Injury or overuse, such as sprains or strains, cramps or tendinitis
- Inflammatory myopathy includes the illnesses polymyositis, dermatomyositis, inclusion body myositis, overlap myositis, and necrotizing autoimmune myopathy.
- A genetic disorder, such as muscular dystrophy, storage myopathies, mitochondrial diseases, periodic paralysis and congenital myopathies
- Fibromyalgia
- Metabolic and Endocrine myopathy- Hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, hyperparathyroidism and hypoparathyroidism
- Infections- influenza, coxsackievirus, and Lyme disease
- Drug Induced - statin drugs, hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil), colchicine, and steroids.
What are symptoms of Muscle Disorders?
- Weakness and Fatigue: muscle weakness tends to be progressive and involves muscles located near the hip or shoulder
- Trouble Moving: difficulty moving, such as walking, running, climbing stairs, or attempting to stand from a seated position
- Trouble with Shoulder Muscles: difficulty in using shoulder muscles, such as lifting or carrying heavy loads, reaching above the head, or holding heavy items
- Muscle Atrophy: shrinking muscle mass
- Pain: defects in blood circulation, injury, or inflammation may cause pain in the muscles
How To Evaluate A Case Of Muscle Disorders?
What Are The Treatment Options Available?
Treatment mainly depends on underlying etiology. Most of the genetic disorders have no specific treatment while inflammatory muscle disease responds well to immunomodulatory treatment.