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Pain Relief For Stiff And Sore Limbs
Muscular dystrophy - limb-girdle type (LGMD)
Symptoms
Typically, the first sign is pelvic muscle weakness (difficulty standing from a sitting position without using the arms, difficulty climbing stairs). The weakness starts in childhood to young adulthood.
Other symptoms include:
- Abnormal, sometimes waddling, walk
- Joints that are fixed in a contracted position (late in the disease)
- Large and muscular-looking calves (pseudohypertrophy), which are not actually strong
- Loss of muscle...
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