MUSCULAR

SYSTEM
DISORDERS

Prepared By:
Lynzee Alvaran, RRT
April 2019
 AMYOTROPHIC
LATERAL SCLEROSIS
- Disease caused
by motor neuron
degeneration
resulting
muscular
weakness and
atrophy; Lou
Gehrig disease

DERMATOMYOSITIS
- Disease of unknown origin
involving muscular
inflammation as well as
dermatitis and skin rashes
MUSCULAR
DYSTROPHY
- Group of hereditary
muscular disorders
marked by muscular
weakness,
autoimmune disease
affecting
neuromuscular
junction
 STRAIN
- Trauma to a
muscle
because of
over use or
excessive
stretch; if
severe may
involve
muscular
tearing,
bleeding,
separation of
a muscle from
SPRAIN tendons, or
- Injury to ligament caused by abnormal or tendon from
excessive force at a joint but without bone bone
dislocation or fracture
TENOSYNOVITIS
- Inflammation of tendon and
its sheath

TENDINITIS
- Inflammation of tendon usually caused by
injury or overuse; shoulder, elbow, hip are the
common sites
 ATHETOSIS
- Condition marked by slow
irregular twisting movements
especially in hands and
fingers

ASTHENIA
- Weakness

ATROPHY
- A wasting away; decrease in size of a
tissue or organ such as muscular
wasting from disuse
 AVULSION
- Forcible tearing away of a
part

CLONUS
- Alternating spasmodic contraction and
relaxation in a muscle

CONTRACTURE
- Permanent contraction of
muscle
 FASCICULATION
- Involuntary small
contractions or twitching
of muscle fiber groups

FIBROMYOSITIS
- Nonspecific term for pain, tenderness, and
stiffness in muscles and joints

FIBROSITIS
- Inflammation of fibrous connective
tissue, especially in muscle fasciae;
marked by pain and stiffness
RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME
- uneasiness, twitching, or restlessness
in the legs that occurs after going to
bed and often leading to insomnia; may
be caused by poor circulation or drug
side effects

RHEUMATISM
- General term for
inflammation,
soreness, stiffness
of muscles
associated with
joint pain
 SPASM
- Sudden, involuntary muscle contractions
may be clonic (contraction alternating with
relaxation) or tonic (sustained), a strong &
painful spasm may be called cramp

TORTICOLLIS
- Spasmodic contraction of the neck muscles causing
stiffness and twisting of neck