Spasticity

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  Weight loss

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  Dysphagia

  Dysphagia is the medical term for the symptom of difficulty in swallowing. Although classified under "symptoms and signs" in ICD-10, the term is sometimes used as a condition in its own right. Sufferers are sometimes unaware of their dysphagia. It derives from the Greek root dys meaning difficulty...

• Monomelic amyotrophy

  Monomelic amyotrophy (also known as MMA, Hirayama's disease, Sobue disease or Juvenile nonprogressive amyotrophy) is an untreatable, focal, lower motor neuron disease that primarily affects young (15 - 25 year-old) males in India and Japan. MMA is marked by insidious onset of muscular atrophy,...

• Fasciculation

  A fasciculation (fah SIK yoo lay shun) (or "muscle twitch") is a small, local, involuntary muscle contraction (twitching) visible under the skin arising from the spontaneous discharge of a bundle of skeletal muscle fibers. Fasciculations have a variety of causes, the majority of which are benign,...

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• Paralysis

  Paralysis is the complete loss of muscle function for one or more muscle groups. Paralysis can cause loss of feeling or loss of mobility in the affected area. Paralysis is most often caused by damage to the nervous system, especially the spinal cord. Major causes are stroke, trauma, poliomyelitis,...

• Muscle atrophy

  Muscle atrophy is defined as a decrease in the mass of the muscle; it can be a partial or complete wasting away of muscle. When a muscle atrophies, it becomes weaker, since the ability to exert force is related to mass; muscle atrophy is a co-morbidity of several common diseases, including cancer,...

• Hyperreflexia

  Hyperreflexia is defined as overactive or overresponsive reflexes. Examples of this can include twitching or spastic tendencies, which are indicative of upper motor neuron disease as well as the lessening or loss of control ordinarily exerted by higher brain centers of lower neural pathways ...

• Dysarthria

  Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder resulting from neurological injury, characterised by poor articulation (cf. aphasia: a disorder of the content of speech). Any of the speech subsystems (respiration, phonation, resonance, prosody, articulation and movements of jaw and tongue) can be affected....

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