Weakness
Physical symptom / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the medical condition. For other uses, see Weakness (disambiguation).
Weakness is a symptom of many different medical conditions.[1] The causes are many and can be divided into conditions that have true or perceived muscle weakness. True muscle weakness is a primary symptom of a variety of skeletal muscle diseases, including muscular dystrophy and inflammatory myopathy. It occurs in neuromuscular junction disorders, such as myasthenia gravis.[citation needed]