{"id":929,"date":"2009-06-08T09:24:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T13:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/?p=929"},"modified":"2023-01-02T15:57:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T15:57:45","slug":"muscle-pain-and-weakness-8-other-causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/2009\/06\/08\/muscle-pain-and-weakness-8-other-causes\/","title":{"rendered":"Muscle pain and weakness: 8 other causes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When patients come to my Neuromuscular Therapy center near Boston with <strong>undiagnosed muscle pain and weakness<\/strong>, I always think about what causes there might be other than the two most recognized by medical professions: underuse (or deconditioning) and disease process. In light of the news story on ABC June 5, 2009 about muscle weakness caused by drinking excessive amounts of cola <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory?id=7768170\">http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory?id=7768170,<\/a> <strong>here are some other reasons to consider that are less recognized by our conventional medical community<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nerve entrapment: <\/strong>When nerves run through tight muscles or pass by a taut band caused by a Trigger Point, nerve signal transmission can be significantly reduced causing muscle weakness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trigger Point referral:<\/strong> Pain and weakness are symptoms of Trigger Points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Muscle energy crisis:<\/strong> Lack of ATP or energy molecules used for fuel caused by hypertonic or ischemic conditions in the muscle where blood flow is limited will cause muscle weakness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Muscle tension:<\/strong> Muscles in constant contraction can&#8217;t lengthen and therefor use only a small portion of the available muscle for power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nourishment:<\/strong> There are nutrients that are essential for neuromuscular functioning. Insufficient amounts of these nutrients can cause muscle weakness. Here is a good link: <a href=\"http:\/\/1stholistic.com\/nutrition\/hol_nutr-def-symptoms.htm\">http:\/\/1stholistic.com\/nutrition\/hol_nutr-def-symptoms.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dehydration and electrolyte imbalance:<\/strong> I&#8217;m always touting the necessity of getting enough water to prevent and to heal muscle problems. Here are two of many reliable sources of information on this subject: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/health\/dehydration\/DS00561\/DSECTION=symptoms\">http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/health\/dehydration\/DS00561\/DSECTION=symptoms<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merck.com\/pubs\/mmanual_ha\/sec3\/ch18\/ch18d.html\"><cite><\/cite><\/a><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merck.com\/pubs\/mmanual_ha\/sec3\/ch18\/ch18d.html\">http:\/\/www.merck.com\/pubs\/mmanual_ha\/sec3\/ch18\/ch18d.html<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n<p><strong>Muscle imbalance:<\/strong> When one muscle is chronically tight, the opposing muscle will be weak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overuse fatigue:<\/strong> This is common in sports, but do you think of yourself as an athlete when you are on the computer too many hours a day or have muscle tension from being stressed? Your muscles can get tired and weak from too much activity without sufficient rest and refueling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When patients come to my Neuromuscular Therapy center near Boston with undiagnosed muscle pain and weakness, I always think about what causes there might be other than the two most recognized by medical professions: underuse (or deconditioning) and disease process. In light of the news story on ABC June 5, 2009 about muscle weakness caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,29],"tags":[172,437,448,449,846,847,488,777],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-muscle-information","tag-dehydration","tag-muscle-pain","tag-muscle-weakness","tag-muscles","tag-nerve-entrapment","tag-neuromuscular-therapy","tag-nutrition-for-muscles","tag-trigger-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4483,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/4483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}