Muscles
What is muscle wasting and paralysis
What are the main causes of Muscular Dystrophy?
What are genetic mutations that interfere with the production of necessary proteins
A common genetic disease that causes the damage of muscle fiber causing weakness, immobility, and imbalance.
What is Muscular Dystrophy
A decrease in muscle cell size from either disease or disuse.
Name the functions of the Muscular System
What is to allow movement, maintain posture, stabilize joints, and generate heat
Diseases and disorders as a result of direct abnormalities of the muscles are considered
What are Primary Muscle Diseases
How does Tendinitis develop?
What is tendinitis can be caused by a sudden injury, the condition is much more likely to come from the repetition of a particular movement over time.
A congenital disorder that affects the posture, balance, and motor functions.
What is Cerebral Palsy
Spontaneous or involuntary contraction of one or more skeletal muscles
What is a muscle spasm
What are the main organs of the muscular system?
What is muscle, tissue, blood vessels, tendons, and nerves.
Diseases that are secondary to another condition and may have caused muscle damage are labeled
What are Secondary Muscular Diseases
What are problems with being born too early, lack of blood, oxygen, or other nutrients before or during birth.
A disease in which tendons get inflamed or irritated most common in wrists, elbows, shoulders, and heels causing pain and swelling.
What is Tendinitis
The increase in muscle cell size is called
What is Hypertrophy
Which types of muscles are involuntarily controlled?
What is almost always the first sign of a problem with your muscles?
What is Muscle Weakness
Name two of the main symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
A dystonic condition defined by an abnormal, asymmetrical head or neck position, which may be due to a variety of causes.
What is Torticollis (Wryneck)
This occurs when a ligament or joint capsule becomes stretched beyond its elastic limits.
What is a sprain
Name the four types of Muscles
What is Smooth (Visceral), Cardiac, and Skeletal Muscles
Works Cited
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“Cerebral Palsy.” HealthLink BC, www.healthlinkbc.ca/health-topics/aa56609.
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“Tendinitis.” Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 3 Nov. 2020, www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/tendinitis/symptoms-causes/syc-20378243#:~:text=Although%20tendinitis%20can%20be%20caused,put%20stress%20on%20the%20tendons.
“What Causes ALS, Who Gets It and What Are the Symptoms ?” Hospital for Special Surgery, www.hss.edu/condition-list_amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis.asp.
“Wry Neck (Torticollis).” Healthline, www.healthline.com/health/torticollis.
What is another name for permanent torticollis?
What is fixed torticollis
A neurodegenerative disease that causes loss of control in voluntary muscles.
What is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
This is another name for muscle pain.
What is Myalgia
Name the 5 properties of muscles
What is excitable and irritable, contractable, extensible, elasticity, and adaptability.