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- What are the main differences between musculoskeletal disorders and neuromuscular disorders?
- What are neuromuscular disorders?
- What are the different types of neuromuscular diseases?
- What is the most common neuromuscular disease?
- Is Fibromyalgia a neuromuscular disorder?
- What are the most common muscular diseases?
What are the main differences between musculoskeletal disorders and neuromuscular disorders?
Muscle weakness can be due to pain inhibition (from musculoskeletal conditions like arthritis). In contrast to the weakness accompanying pain, the weakness seen with neuromuscular disorders is more profound and often more progressive.
What are neuromuscular disorders?
Neuromuscular disorder (NMD) is a very broad term encompassing a range of conditions that impair the functioning of the muscles, either directly, being pathologies of the voluntary muscle, or indirectly, being pathologies of the peripheral nervous system or neuromuscular junctions.
What are the different types of neuromuscular diseases?
Types of neuromuscular disorders include:
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
- Multiple sclerosis.
- Muscular dystrophy.
- Myasthenia gravis.
- Myopathy.
- Myositis, including polymyositis and dermatomyositis.
- Peripheral neuropathy.
What is the most common neuromuscular disease?
The most common of these diseases is myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disease where the immune system produces antibodies that attach themselves to the neuromuscular junction and prevent transmission of the nerve impulse to the muscle.
Is Fibromyalgia a neuromuscular disorder?
FACT: Fibromyalgia is a neurological disease affecting a person's sensory processing system. Fibromyalgia does not involve inflammation or damage to joints. Brain imaging and studies have shown that fibromyalgia is a disorder of the central nervous system.
What are the most common muscular diseases?
Common primary diseases of the muscular system include inflammatory myopathies, such as polymyositis and dermatomyositis, muscular dystrophy, myasthenia gravis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, rhabdomyolysis, and cardiomyopathy, among others.
