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Myotonia - BrainFacts.org
Myotonia is a medical term that refers to a neuromuscular condition in which the relaxation of a muscle is impaired . It can affect any muscle group. Repeated effort will be needed to relax the muscle, although the condition usually improves after the muscles have warmed-up.
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Myotonia: What It Is, Causes, Symptoms & Treatment
Myotonia is a symptom in which your muscles can't relax after they contract. For example, you might not be able to let go of someone's hand after you shake it.
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Myotonia - Wikipedia
Myotonia is a symptom of a small handful of certain neuromuscular disorders characterized by delayed relaxation (prolonged contraction) of the skeletal muscles.
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myotonia
myotonia Path. (maɪəˈtəʊnɪə) [mod.L., f. myo- + Gr. τόν-ος tone n. + -ia1.] 1. The inability to relax voluntary muscle for a period following its use; any condition characterized by this.1898 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. XXV. 509, I think it proper to assign all such cases to the one clinical category ...
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Myotonia - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
Myotonia is an impairing disorder that resulted in the delayed relaxation of skeletal muscles after voluntary contraction.
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Congenital and Acquired Myotonia | PM&R KnowledgeNow
Myotonia is essentially failure of muscle relaxation following contraction, leading to clinical spasm and specific patterns of prolonged electrophysiological ...
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Myotonia congenita - Genetics - MedlinePlus
Myotonia congenita is a disorder that affects muscles used for movement (skeletal muscles). Beginning in childhood, people with this condition experience bouts ...
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Sodium channel myotonia (paramyotonia congenita)
Myotonia is muscle stiffness that develops when the muscles do not relax after being squeezed. In myotonia, this stiffness may wear off after the muscles are ...
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Myotonia Congenita (Thomsen Disease and Becker Type)
There are two types of myotonia congenita: Becker-type myotonia is the most common form, while Thomsen disease is a very rare, relatively mild form.
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Myotonia - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Myotonia is a failure of muscle cell relaxation manifesting clinically as impaired relaxation after voluntary muscle contraction (e.g., grip myotonia, ...
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Myotonia congenita
Adrenaline/epinephrine is well known to make myotonia worse in most individuals with the disorder, and a person with myotonia congenita may experience Autosomal recessive myotonia congenita (OMIM #255700) is also called generalized myotonia, recessive generalized myotonia (RGM), Becker disease, and Becker
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myotonic
myotonic, a. Path. (maɪəˈtɒnɪk) [f. myo- + tonic a.] Producing, exhibiting, or characteristic of myotonia.1887 A. de Watteville tr. H. von Ziemssen's Handbk. Therap. VI. 213 The Myotonic Electrical Reaction. 1887 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. XIV. 129 Those [cases] which, although showing the principal ...
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Potassium-aggravated myotonia
Potassium-aggravated myotonia may, in some cases, also cause paradoxical myotonia, in which myotonia becomes more severe at the time of movement instead Unlike some other forms of myotonia, potassium-aggravated myotonia is not associated with episodes of muscle weakness.
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amyotonia
amyotonia, n. Path. (ˌeɪmaɪəˈtəʊnɪə) [f. a- 14 + myotonia n.] Lack of muscle tone; spec. (in full amyotonia congenita), any of several rare congenital diseases characterized by general hypotonia of the skeletal muscles.1907 Brain XXX. 146 (heading) Dr. James S. Collier.—A case of amyotonia congenita...
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Paramyotonia congenita
This type of myotonia has been termed paradoxical because it becomes worse with exercise whereas classical myotonia, as seen in myotonia congenita, is Avoidance of myotonia triggering events is also an effective method of myotonia prevention.
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