1. Muscle Diseases and Disorders

2. Fibromyalgia
painful disorder of muscles, tendons, and surrounding soft tissue
Muscles feel like they have been pulled or overworked.
Sometimes muscles twitch & other times they burn.
Most patients say that they ache all over.

3. FIBROMYALGIA PAIN POINTS

4. Muscular Dystrophies muscle destroying diseases
degeneration of individual muscle fibers
Muscle is replaced with fat and fibrous tissue
progressive atrophy of skeletal muscles
due to a genetic defect

5. Muscular Dystrophy in lower limbs

6. Shinsplints pain in the anterior lower leg
tendonitis of tibialis posterior muscle
inflammation of periosteum
stress fracture of the tibia
exaggerated enlargement of muscles within the epimysium
pulling away of the periosteum from the underlying bone
Treatment:
RICE
strengthen tibialis anterior muscle

7. Shinsplints

8. Abnormal Contractions
unintended muscular contraction not stimulated by normal mechanisms
may be caused by dehydration, electrolyte imbalances or neurological disorders & abnormalities
Examples--tic, twitch, spasm, Charlie horse

9. Myasthenia Gravis (MG)
a weakness of skeletal muscle
an auto-immune disorder
caused by antibodies that block the Ach receptors at the motor end plate

10. Myasthenis gravis eye droop

11. The end