Medical Conditions – Muscle Disorders

Muscle disorders
  • Any condition where one has muscle disorders (please note this is not a full exhaustive list but of more common conditions where one has acquired the condition rather than those discovered at birth or a young age, a specialist will conduct further tests for rare conditions)?

  • Rhabdomyolysis (Crush syndrome)

  • Pre-menstural syndrome (PMS) or Pre-menstural tension(PMT) (females only)

  • Acromegaly

  • Arthritis

  • Amyloidosis

  • Becker muscular dystrophy

  • Bell’s palsy (Facial Palsy)

  • Cataplexy (sudden loss of muscle tone while a person is awake leads to weakness and a loss of voluntary muscle control. It is often triggered by sudden, strong emotions such as laughter, fear, anger, stress, or excitement)

  • Cold-related injuries

  • Dermatomyositis/Juvenile Dermatomyositis

  • Fibromyalgia

  • Muscle Atrophy/low tone/wasting (including feeding difficulties)

  • Myoclonus (quick, involuntary muscle jerks)

  • Myositis

  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy variety

  • Ehlers-Danlos

  • Erdheim-Chester disease

  • Emery-Dreifuss maculary dystrophy

  • Frontotemporal Dementia (Pick’s disease)

  • Growing pains

  • Hirayama disease (damage or compression to the spinal cord causing muscle loss and weakness initially forearms and hands mainly in young males)

  • Huntington disease

  • Inclusion-Body Myositis

  • Lewy Body Dementia

  • Limb-Girdle dystrophy

  • Metabolic acidosis

  • Metabolic alkalosis

  • Oculopharyngeal Muscle Conditions

  • Polymayalgia rheumatica

  • Polymyositis

  • Tendonitis

  • Orbital Myositis (idiopathic orbital or ocular myositis)

  • Phenylketonuria

  • Polymyositis

  • Lysosomal Lipid Storage and/or Lysosomal Lipid Metabolism Disorders and/or Mucopolysaccharides Metabolism Disorders (Mucopolysaccharidoses)

  • Mitochondrial Myopathy/Encephalomyopathy

  • Sarcoidosis

  • Scleroderma (Crest syndrome)

  • Trismus

  • Wernicke encephalopathy

  • Alpers Disease (childhood condition occurs from 3 months – 5 years old)

  • Gastric Motility Conditions (Conditions Where The Movement Of Food In The Digestive System Is Affected)

  • Achalasia

  • Gastroparesis

  • Intussusception

  • Myotonic Dystrophy

  • Paralytic Ileus

  • Hirschsprung’s Disease

  • Dumping Syndrome

  • Other:

Syndromes
  • Syndromes related to muscle conditions?

  • Acute respiratory distress syndrome (affect lungs)

  • Newborn respiratory distress syndrome (affect lungs)

  • Compartment Syndrome

  • Rhabdomyolysis (Crush syndrome)

  • Angelman syndrome

  • Bartter’s syndrome/Gitelman syndrome (affects kidney, ear, muscles)

  • Coffin-Siris syndrome

  • Cornelia de Lange syndrome

  • Scleroderma (Crest syndrome)

  • DiGeorge syndrome

  • Dubowitz syndrome (narrow or triangle-shaped face with a high or sloping forehead, eczema, vision problems)

  • East syndrome (affect kidney, ear, movement)

  • Felty syndrome

  • Gustavson syndrome

  • Kabuki syndrome

  • Klinefelter syndrome (male only)

  • Korsakoff Syndrome

  • Lambert-Eaton Syndrome

  • Marfan syndrome

  • Muscle Atrophy/low tone/wasting (including feeding difficulties) including syndromes causing this condition

  • Parsonage-Turner syndrome (Brachial  plexus neuritis-is an uncommon neurological disorder characterised by rapid onset of severe pain in the shoulder and arm)

  • Prader-Willi syndrome

  • Pre-menstural syndrome (PMS) or Pre-menstural tension(PMT) (females only)

  • Myotonic dystrophy (Steinert disease, Ricker syndrome)

  • Post-Polio syndrome (caused by polio infection)

  • Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome

  • Russell-Silver syndrome

  • Smith Lemli Opitz syndrome

  • Sotos syndrome

  • Stiff Person Syndrome/Moersch-Woltmann Syndrome/ Isaacs Syndrome

  • Williams-Beuren syndrome

  • Wolfram syndrome

  • Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome

  • Other: