Definition
Muscular atrophy is a pathological condition characterized by the progressive decrease in the size of one or more muscles. This can be the consequence of reduced oxygenation (prolonged immobilization of various origins), ischemia, compression (disc hernia and carpal tunnel syndrome), reduced functional stimulation (spinal cord injury or motor neuron disease) and muscle damage (dystrophy or trauma ).
Atrophy can be associated with weakness or, if the loss of motor function is complete, paralysis. Atrophic paralysis is characterized, therefore, by the loss of voluntary motility associated with the reduction of muscle tone (in practice, the muscles appear flaccid and thinned).
Infectious causes include botulism, leprosy, poliomyelitis and syphilis. Muscular atrophy and paralysis can also be associated with clinical pictures of arthrosis and arthritis, bursitis, diabetic foot, ichthyosis and liver cirrhosis.
Possible Causes * of Atrophy and muscle paralysis
- Achondroplasia
- Arthritis
- Arthrosis
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Beriberi
- Bursitis
- Botulism
- Liver Cirrhosis
- Slipped disc
- Ichthyosis
- Leprosy
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Huntington's disease
- myelopathy
- Neuroblastoma
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Osteoid osteoma
- Diabetic Foot
- polymyositis
- Polio
- radiculopathy
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Syphilis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Reye syndrome
- Syringomyelia
- Spina bifida
- Cervical spondylosis
- Spinal cord tumors
