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Health Encyclopedia: Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophies
Muscular dystrophy - limb-girdle type
Symptoms
- Muscle weakness in pelvis, hips, upper legs, shoulders
- Loss of muscle mass in the same areas, thinning of those body parts
- Low back pain
- Abnormal, sometimes waddling, gait while walking
- Later in disease, there can be facial muscle weakness
- Later in the disease, muscles of the lower legs, feet, lower arms, and hands can become weak
- Late in the disease, there can b...
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