Muscular Diseases
- Myopathy: a muscular disease that causes muscle fibers to not function for any one of many reasons resulting in muscular weakness.
Fingers of a person with dermatomyositis show red bumps on the knuckles, redness around the nails and thick, ragged cuticles.
Fibromyalgia: a syndrome rather than a disease, where a person has long-term, body-wide pain and tenderness in the joints, muscles, tendons, and other soft tissues.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A disorder that causes extreme fatigue, this fatigue cannot be lost even when rested.
Polymyositis: Meaning "many muscle inflammation"', a rheumatic disease that causes weakness and inflammation of muscles.
Muscular dystrophy: A genetic disorder that weakens the muscles that help it move, it weakens over time eventually getting to the point where you cannot move anymore.