10 Ganglion Cyst Symptoms
Symptom #4: Muscle Weakness
Muscle weakness occurs when the muscles require more effort to produce a movement compared to normal. Patients can complain of reduced strength or weak muscles. Muscle weakness can be caused by overuse of muscles and usually recovers with rest.
However, muscle weakness that is persistent or those caused without a normal explanation can be due to an underlying disorder such as seen in muscular dystrophies, chronic fatigue syndrome, myasthenia gravis, hypotonia, stroke, polio, hypothyroidism, rheumatic fever, botulism, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, peripheral neuropathy, and more. Muscle weakness can also occur if the nervous system, brain, or muscles are injured. In a ganglion cyst, muscle weakness can occur if the cyst affects the nerve.
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