Talk:Muscle weakness

Merge dystrophy, muscle atrophy and muscle weakness
The terms are related, and the articles all quite short, especially the first, since details for specific variations are found on other pages. --nkayesmith 02:06, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree this should be merged into the muscle atrophy article... I can add the parts about weakness, and the correlation between atrophy and weakness...

just let me know when you're ready to do the merge Gacggt 22:19, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Merging dystrophy should be no problem, but the other two are independent (though related), and should not be merged (see and  for defs). --Arcadian 01:03, 30 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, dystrophy is completely distinct from atrophy - since dystrophy is caused by genetic mutations that usually cause structural problems in the muscle - resulting in myofiber breakdown and consequence regeneration... this mechanism is distinct from atrophy... though the result obviously is weakness.

As opposed to getting atrophic muscle, in early stages of dystrophy you actually see compensatory hypertrophy - muscle that is larger in size, but relatively weak, due to the problems with the actual muscle fibers. Gacggt 12:05, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Confusing/nonsensical Sentence
"Muscular strength can be gained by going to the physiotherapist for exercises for individual muscles groups, before pre-typhoid exercise can be attained."-- Huh? Kajerm 22:21, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I deleted that nonsensical bit... Gacggt 22:18, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Rename to Weakness
This is the generic term and should be the name of this article. A UTI is one of the main causes of weakness but does not particularly pertain to mm. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 17:13, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Muscle weakness is a subtype of weakness. I adapted it to fit this sense. Mikael Häggström (talk) 18:25, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

CFS & "true & perceived"
I removed the claim that true muscle weakness doesn't occur in CFS, which was contradicted by the well-referenced next sentence anyway, as well as e.g.. Prolonged episodes are often triggered by pushing through muscle fatigue, which is possibily where the confusion arises. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.254.219.161 (talk) 20:24, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Should I remove broken references?
Reference [10] (Neurologic Examination at First Year Medical Curriculum at University of Florida College of Medicine. By Richard Rathe. Created: January 15, 1996. Modified: December 19, 2000) is broken, it used to work time ago, should I remove it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adelriosantiago (talk • contribs) 05:41, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

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