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If your body muscles are always contracting, what health problems long term could this cause? mental/physical?

Q: if your body muscles are always contracting, what health problems long term could this cause? mental/physical?

: If you're referring to voluntary contractions of skeletal muscles,I can't think that there would be harmful effects long-term. Repetitive involuntary muscular contractions are abnormal and call for investigation as to cause.

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Dr. Donald Colantino answered

If you're referring to voluntary contractions of skeletal muscles,I can't think that there would be harmful effects long-term. Repetitive involuntary muscular contractions are abnormal and call for investigation as to cause.

Answered 9/1/2022

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If your body muscles are always contracting, what health problems long term could this cause? mental/physical?

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