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A member asked:

I have benign fasciculations, diagnosed by a neurologist. it started two months after a mild concussion. did the concussion cause it or coincidence?

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Dr. Galina Nikolskaya answered

Specializes in Neurology

Not related: benign fasciculations is a peripheral neuromuscular process and your brain concussion had not caused it

Answered 11/18/2016

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