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Muscle stiffness

Muscle stiffness: Introduction

Muscle stiffness: A difficulty in stretching a muscle. See free access online books about Muscle stiffness below. See detailed information below for a list of 144 causes of Muscle stiffness, including diseases and drug side effect causes.

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Causes of Muscle stiffness

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Drug interactions causing Muscle stiffness:

When combined, certain drugs, medications, substances or toxins may react causing Muscle stiffness as a symptom. Always advise your doctor of any medications or treatments you are using, including prescription, over-the-counter, supplements, herbal or alternative treatments.

  • Furosemide and Clofibrate interaction
  • Albert Furosemide and Clofibrate interaction
  • Apo-Furosemide and Clofibrate interaction
  • Fumide MD and Clofibrate interaction
  • Furocot and Clofibrate interaction
  • Furomide MD and Clofibrate interaction
  • Furose and Clofibrate interaction
  • Furosemide-10 and Clofibrate interaction
  • more interactions...»

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Detailed list of causes of Muscle stiffness

The list below shows some of the causes of Muscle stiffness mentioned in various sources:

See full list of 144 causes of Muscle stiffness

How Common are these Causes of Muscle stiffness?

This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases, not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Muscle stiffness. Of the 144 causes of Muscle stiffness that we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:

  • 0 causes are "very common" diseases
  • 2 causes are "common" diseases
  • 0 causes are "uncommon" diseases
  • 1 causes are "rare" diseases
  • 2 causes are "very rare" diseases
  • 140 causes have no prevalence information.

See the analysis of the prevalence of 144 causes of Muscle stiffness

Conditions listing symptoms: Muscle stiffness:

The following list of conditions have 'Muscle stiffness' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

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  • 3q deletion ... excessive muscle tone

    A

  • Abdominal muscle strain ... muscle stiffness
  • Adrenal adenoma, familial ... increased muscle bulk
  • Adrenal Cancer ... increased muscle bulk
  • Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms ... increased muscle bulk
  • Adrenal gland hyperfunction ... increased muscle bulk
  • Adrenal incidentaloma ... increased muscle bulk
  • Adrenocortical carcinoma ... increased muscle bulk
  • Adrenomyeloneuropathy ... excessive muscle tone
  • Akesson syndrome ... increased muscle tone
  • Alpers Syndrome ... increased muscle tone
  • Alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase deficiency ... increased muscle tone
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 9 ... muscle stiffness
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 1 ... muscle stiffness
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 2 ... muscle stiffness
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 3 ... muscle stiffness
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 4 ... muscle stiffness
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 5 ... muscle stiffness
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 6 ... muscle stiffness
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 7 ... muscle stiffness
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 8 ... muscle stiffness
  • Arginase deficiency ... muscle stiffness
  • Atherosclerosis, premature - deafness - diabetes mellitus - photomyoclonus - nephropathy - degenerative neurologic disease ... increased muscle tone
  • Atherosclerosis- deafness - diabetes - epilepsy - nephropathy ... increased muscle tone

    B

  • Bahemuka Brown syndrome ... increased muscle tone
  • Baraitser Brett Piesowicz syndrome ... increased muscle tone
  • Becker disease ... muscle stiffness
  • Bicep muscle strain ... muscle stiffness

    C

  • Calcification of basal ganglia with or without hypocalcemia ... muscle stiffness
  • Calf muscle strain ... muscle stiffness
  • Carnitine palmitoyl transferase 2 deficiency ... muscle stiffness
  • Carnitine palmitoyl transferase deficiency ... muscle stiffness
  • Carnitine palmitoyl transferase II deficiency, infantile hepatocardiomuscular type ... muscle stiffness
  • Carnitine palmitoyl transferase II deficiency, lethal neonatal form ... muscle stiffness
  • Carnitine palmitoyl transferase II deficiency, myopathic ... muscle stiffness
  • Cerebrorenodigital syndrome ... increased muscle tone
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with pyramidal features, autosomal dominant ... increased muscle tone
  • Chemical poisoning - Lysergic Acid Diethylamide ... increased muscle tone
  • Chemical poisoning - Metaldehyde ... increased muscle tone
  • Chemical poisoning - Strychnine ... muscle stiffness
  • Childhood hypophosphatasia ... muscle stiffness
  • Chromosome 1, monosomy 1q25 q32 ... increased muscle tone
  • Chromosome 12p deletion ... Excessive muscle tone
  • Chromosome 12p deletion syndrome ... excessive muscle tone
  • Chromosome 16p, partial duplication ... excessive muscle tone
  • Chromosome 16q, partial duplication ... excessive muscle tone
  • Chromosome 17p, partial duplication ... excessive muscle tone
  • Chromosome 18, Tetrasomy 18p ... excessive muscle tone
  • Chromosome 21 monosomy ... excessive muscle tone
  • Chromosome 21q deletion syndrome ... excessive muscle tone
  • Chromosome 22 Ring ... excessive muscle tone
  • Chromosome 4, trisomy 4q ... Excessive muscle tone
  • Chromosome 4q duplication syndrome ... excessive muscle tone
  • Chromosome 5q deletion syndrome ... excessive muscle tone
  • Chromosome 7, monosomy 7q3 ... increased muscle tone
  • Chromosome 8 recombinant syndrome ... excessive muscle tone
  • Congenital ichthyosis, microcephalus, quadriplegia ... increased muscle tone
  • Cutis verticis gyrata mental deficiency ... increased muscle tone

    D

  • Desmoplastic cerebral astrocytoma of infancy ... increased muscle tone
  • Desmoplastic infantile ganglioma ... increased muscle tone

    E

  • Edinburgh malformation syndrome ... increased muscle tone
  • Encephalopathy due to sulphite oxidase deficiency ... increased muscle tone
  • Epileptic encephalopathy, early infantile, 1 ... increased muscle tone

    F

  • Fara-Chlupackova syndrome ... increased muscle tone
  • Feigenbaum-Bergeron-Richardson syndrome ... increased muscle tone
  • Fetal brain disruption sequence ... increased muscle tone
  • Fitzsimmons-McLachlan-Gilbert syndrome ... increased muscle tone
  • Forearm muscle strain ... muscle stiffness

    G

  • Gaucher disease - perinatal lethal form ... increased muscle tone
  • Gluteal muscle strain ... muscle stiffness
  • Grand mal seizures ... muscle stiffness
  • Groin muscle strain ... muscle stiffness

    H

  • Hand muscle strain ... muscle stiffness
  • Hashimoto's Thyroiditis ... muscle stiffness
  • Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia ... muscle stiffness
  • Hip Flexor strain ... muscle stiffness
  • Hip muscle strain ... muscle stiffness
  • Howard-Young syndrome ... increased muscle tone
  • Hyperadrenalism ... increased muscle bulk
  • Hyperandrogenism ... increased muscle bulk
  • Hyperekplexia and epilepsy ... muscle stiffness
  • Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis ... muscle stiffness
  • Hypokalemic periodic paralysis ... muscle stiffness

    I

  • Idiopathic basal ganglia calcification, childhood onset ... increased muscle tone
  • Isaacs syndrome ... increased muscle tone

    K

  • Krabbe disease, atypical, due to saposin A deficiency ... increased muscle tone
  • Krabbe leukodystrophy ... excessive muscle tone

    L

  • Leg muscle strain ... muscle stiffness
  • Lhermitte-Cornil-Quesnel syndrome ... increased muscle tone
  • Lindsay-Burn syndrome ... increased muscle tone
  • Lower back muscle strain ... muscle stiffness
  • Lymphomatous thyroiditis ... muscle stiffness

    M

  • Maternal hyperphenylalaninemia ... increased muscle tone
  • Menkes Disease ... excessive muscle tone
  • Mental retardation, Buenos Aires type ... increased muscle tone
  • Micrencephaly olivopontocerebellar hypoplasia ... increased muscle tone
  • Muscle Hypertonia ... increased muscle tone, muscle stiffness
  • Muscle phosphoglycerate kinase deficiency ... muscle stiffness
  • Muscle strain ... muscle stiffness
  • Myotonic Dystrophy ... muscle stiffness

    N

  • N syndrome ... increased muscle tone
  • Nemaline myopathy 6 ... muscle stiffness
  • Niemann-Pick disease, type C1 ... increased muscle tone
  • Niemann-Pick disease, type C2 ... increased muscle tone
  • Night blindness - skeletal anomalies - unusual facies ... increased muscle tone

    O

  • Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy ... muscle stiffness

    P

  • Paramyotonia congenita ... muscle stiffness
  • Perinatal-lethal Gaucher disease ... increased muscle tone
  • Pfeiffer-Palm-Teller syndrome ... increased muscle tone
  • Phenothiazine antenatal infection ... excessive muscle tone
  • Phenylketonuria ... increased muscle tone
  • Phosphoserine aminotransferase deficiency ... increased muscle tone
  • Pneumonia, Aspiration ... muscle stiffness
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial ... muscle stiffness
  • Pneumonia, Staphylococcal ... muscle stiffness
  • Pneumonia, Viral ... muscle stiffness
  • Polymyalgia rheumatica ... muscle stiffness
  • Proximal myotonic dystrophy ... muscle stiffness
  • Purine nucleoside phosphorylase deficiency ... increased muscle tone

    R

  • Rhizomelic pseudopolyarthritis ... muscle stiffness
  • Riedel syndrome ... muscle stiffness
  • Rippling muscle disease ... muscle stiffness
  • Rippling muscle disease, 1 ... muscle stiffness
  • Rippling muscle disease, 2 ... muscle stiffness
  • Rocky Mountain spotted fever ... muscle stiffness

    S

  • Saul-Wilkes-Stevenson syndrome ... increased muscle tone
  • Serine deficiency ... increased muscle tone
  • Shoulder muscle strain ... muscle stiffness
  • Spastic disorders ... muscle stiffness
  • Spastic paraplegia - neuropathy - poikiloderma ... increased muscle tone
  • Spasticity - multiple exostoses ... increased muscle tone
  • SPG ... increased muscle tone
  • Startle epilepsy ... muscle stiffness

    T

  • Thigh muscle strain ... muscle stiffness
  • Tonic seizure ... muscle stiffness
  • Tonic-Clonic seizure ... muscle stiffness
  • Tricep muscle strain ... muscle stiffness

    U

  • Upper arm muscle strain ... muscle stiffness
  • Upper back muscle strain ... muscle stiffness
  • Upper motor neuron weakness ... increased muscle tone
  • Urban rogers meyer syndrome ... increased muscle tone

    W

  • Weaver Syndrome ... excessive muscle tone
  • Whistling face syndrome, recessive form ... increased muscle tone

    Y

  • Young McKeever Squier syndrome ... increased muscle tone

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  • Causes of Muscle stiffness Based on Risk Factors

    This information shows analysis of the list of causes of Muscle stiffness based on whether certain risk factors apply to the patient:

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    Classifications of Muscle stiffness:

    Subtypes of Muscle stiffness:

    Excessive muscle tone (19 causes)

    Medical Conditions associated with Muscle stiffness:

    Muscle symptoms (4254 causes), Stiffness (629 causes), Movement symptoms (2556 causes)

    Symptoms related to Muscle stiffness:

    Muscle spasms (1689 causes), Muscle pain (792 causes), Muscle tone symptoms, 3q deletion, Abdominal muscle strain, Adrenal adenoma, Familial, Adrenal Cancer, Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms

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