Taking a Look at Muscle Cramps

The patient presents with probable muscle tension dysphonia (CAPE-V 62/100). She is characterized by hoarseness and roughness in her voice. Ms. Pepper’s forced vital capacity was 2900 cc ml. The average vital capacity for women is between 3000-4000 cc ml. Ms. Pepper’s vital capacity is below the normal. Ms. Pepper predicted MPT was 17.11 seconds. According to Awan & Ziminsky-Ammon (1996), the average mean for MPT should be about 19.70 (SD of 5.79) Reduced MPT might indicate either a problem with reduced respiratory capacity or control and/or loss of air through incomplete glottal closures. However, the increased tension may require excessive levels of subglottal air to initiate and maintain phonation so someone may run out of air quicker and/or

A muscle is strained when there is too much pressure put on a muscle. Whether you pull your muscle while playing a sport or just in your everyday activities, it is helpful to know how to treat it. Some are too severe to treat at home, so you would need to go to a doctor. This article will tell about some symptoms and treatments for a muscle strain.

Numerous people go through physical pain in their life. Furthermore, kids seem prone to test their limits. Often this comes in the form of broken bones. At nine years old, I was just like any other kid. Let me take you through the most dramatic experience of my entire life: breaking my arm, getting a green cast, home/school life with a cast, and finally getting my cast off.

Spasticity is the stiffness and a wide range of uncontrolled muscle spasms. This disorder makes it difficult to move, walk, and even to talk. It is a common symptoms of MS. Spasticity may also produce feelings of pain in joints and cause lower back pain. It can occur in any area of your body but is more often found in the legs. Spasticity may be so bad it becomes painful along with uncontrollable spasms. Muscle spasticity occurs when nerve impulses that control muscle movement are damaged. If left untreated spasticity can lead to immobile joints and possible pressure sores. Common reasons behind this disorder are spinal cord injuries, and brain damage. Symptoms of spasticity include increased muscle tone, Decreased functional abilities and

When a prescription drug gives somebody a high, neurotransmitters in the brain are essentially hijacked by the opiates. This is a problem because the neurotransmitters control the flow of dopamine, or the chemical in our brains that makes us feel good. When taking the prescription pill the dopamine levels in the brain shoot up and that is how you feel the full affect. Muscle spasms occur as a long term effect due to this cycle. The brain isn’t able to process information as thoroughly as it normally would so it doesn’t control your body to its full ability. By snorting and injecting prescription pills you can cause severe heart damage. When you snort or inject a substance, it almost immediately kicks in because it goes straight to the bloodstream and this is hard on your heart because it isn’t natural for so much dopamine to be released so quickly throughout the body.

You have had a strange feeling for a few days now. Today you’ve been feeling very energetic and tired at the same time. You sit, exhausted and full of energy, at your desk. Your arm has been itching. It’s killing you now. You look at your forearm and see it for the first time. Something is moving under your skin. It is shifting around. Your muscle spasms and you realize there are dozens moving toward the

Spasms are musculoskeletal scatters showing by muscle compressions automatic, maintained, transitory and pretty much agonizing, frequently generous. They may happen very still, notwithstanding amid rest, or when truly exceptional physical exertion, be it amid the warm-up, amid work out, or notwithstanding amid the recuperation stage.

I really appericate that you spent some time with me ousting some of the myths or over interpreted problems occuring in my body that many decided was bad. Since the test came back normal I can only assume two possible reason why my body is having some issues : 1) lack of exercise making all my muscles extremely weak 2) shocks and aches coming from jaw issues. Last night, I experienced a large amount of electrical shocks in my wrist, ear drums, neck and ankles after my jaw locked up on me. I have a feeling that many of my aches and pain comes from the after effects of these muscle spasm. Knowing that, I will strive to elimate some of the stresses in my life to redue some of these events from happening and I will strenghen my muscle where they

cramping and fatigue. Potassium builds up in the t-tubule system and around the muscle fiber as a

Cramp in the foot occurs when the muscles to contract, which can be a result of you sat very, or after some kind of intensive training that has lasted for a long time. This discomfort can be short term or persist.

A few years ago I was demoing a kitchen, and I decided it would be a great idea to kick down what was left of a wall. All was well for a few days, until I was suddenly struck with a debilitating pain in my leg. Deciding it was probably muscle pain I tried to treat it ice packs instead of going to a doctor. I ended up with some of the worst pain I have ever experienced for almost an entire week. After almost half of a month of this I finally relented to going to see an orthopedist, a doctor specializing problems involving bones. The doctor put me in a giant machine called an MRI for almost an hour, just to get a full image of my leg. Not only did the scan cost a lot of money it found a strange haze around my femur. The doctor

The hamstrings are a muscle group consisting of three muscles, the semitendinosus, semimbranosus, and biceps femorus muscles. Tight hamstrings cause difficulty in touching your toes, and this can lead to problems in the lower back. The practice of yoga offers wonderful ways to stretch your hamstrings, but it is also possible to overstretch the hamstrings muscles.

Muscle contraction starts with an impulse from the nervous system to release acetylcholine in the neuromuscular junction. This excites the muscle fibers. Each muscle fiber is made of myofibrils. Energy and Calcium is needed. This energy comes from ATP. Muscle contraction requires that cross bridges be formed between the myosin head and the actin. These pull the sarcomere together. Each sarcomere has two types thick and thin myofilaments. Muscle contractions starts with a signal of acetylcholine is released from the axon terminal and binds to the receptors on the sarcolemma. Then travels down the T-tubule where calcium is then released from the SR. calcium then binds to troponin. AChE removes Ach When calcium is leaving the muscle and returns

On September 11th, I was FaceTiming my family at 12 PM JST (we live in Japan), happily bouncing away on my exercise ball. As I'm talking to my mom, I feel my belly tighten up. In fact, it was a feeling I had felt many times before, however, that time was different. Actually, it lasted for about a minute with very mild cramping, so I knew it was different than a Braxton Hicks. However, I chose to ignore it and went about my day, in fear of getting my hopes

Maybe some of you have experienced tingling sensation when exercising, at the foot or in hand, and you think of it as a matter of experienced a person who was exercise. But you know that the tingling the current sports can be a sign of the condition of serious health? Then, what causes a person feel tingling the current sports? There are 3 things to make a person tingling the current sports, namely: 1. Oxygen Oxygen is the substance of the most needed to break up sugar and fats into energy when exercising. When the lungs give oxygen to the blood, the heart and blood vessels will be channeled to the organs and muscle. When you exercise intensity weight of a sudden and without warming up, will be an increase oxygen demand in muscle suddenly. Because the body has not adapt