DM2 is characterized by proximal and distal weakness associated with myotonia and muscle pain. Calf hypertrophy with extramuscular involvement such as cataracts, cardiac arrhythmias, diabetes ...

Polymyositis is indicated by progressive weakening of the proximal limb muscles ... treated a patient who presented with ...

Inclusion body myositis (IBM) is an inflammatory myopathy causing proximal and distal muscle weakness. IBM’s cause remains ...

In family CSM1, two out of three siblings developed proximal muscle weakness and wasting while in their twenties or thirties. Weakness slowly progressed to involve all extremities and eventually ...

While a gradual loss in muscle strength is a natural part of aging, for many older adults it's more than just feeling a ...

Thurman M. Wheeler, MD, of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in Nature Communications, "Analysis of human urinary extracellular ...