Talk:Muscle weakness

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[edit] 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 MeSH Muscle+Weakness and MeSH Muscular+Atrophy 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)

[edit] 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)