Exploring symptoms

Fatigue is a word that is often used to describe exhaustion, but if we look deeper we can see that there are many types of fatigue.

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Muscles can degenerate and waste away for a number of reasons, and it’s not always due to disease or injury. How does this occur in muscle diseases?

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Muscle pain can present across muscle diseases in a number of different ways, and not always as a direct consequence of the disease itself.

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Weakness in the legs and hips is a primary symptom of several proximal muscle diseases, where it can progressively develop in childhood or adulthood.

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Effective breathing requires the healthy function of several muscle groups, and weakness of these muscles can cause symptoms of breathlessness.

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Struggling to do a sit-up could be a sign that you have weakness in your stomach muscles. But what are these muscles and how does their weakness relate to proximal muscle diseases?

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The shoulder is one of the most mobile joints in the body and weakness of the muscles involved in movement here can occur in several proximal muscle diseases.

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The muscles in the face, neck and/or throat are required to perform some of the most intricate movements of the body, and weakness in these muscles can have a significant impact on daily life.

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