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Muscle rigidity
Muscle rigidity is a clinical finding where one or more muscle groups is tight and lacks the full range of motion.
Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this
16 year experience in family medicine
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A 33-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Muscle rigidity?
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A 25-year old female asked:
What is the treatment for muscle rigidity?
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A 19-year old male asked:
Can stress cause muscle rigidity? Last night i was having difficulty opening/closing hands
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A 23-year old female asked:
What kind of test can show my diaphragm motion(doc suspects it is very contracted and unable to fully relax)because i have general muscle rigidity?
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A 42-year old male asked:
My mum has a diagnosed Parkinson's Disease and she's suffering a lot from muscle rigidity. She can't relax her shoulders at all. Can I ask a cosmetic surgeon to inject botox to relieve some pain?
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A 56-year old male asked:
I'm 56 yo taking 10 mg of escitalopram in the a.m. is it ok to take 4mg of ondansetron for occasional nausea ? ever so often i experience muscle rigidity in my arms when i wake up in the mornings?
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A 31-year old asked:
How much muscle wall rigidity is normal?
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A 35-year old asked:
How does one develop muscle wall rigidity?
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A 25-year old male asked:
I'm having severe muscle spasms from my shoulders all the way down & around my body causing muscle weakness, rigidity, dizziness. How do I treat this?
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A 25-year old female asked:
My dr said the prescribing of muscle relaxants for rigidity will have side effects worse than the rigidity and only for intense spasm. Is this true?
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A 25-year old female asked:
If a patient came to you complaining of muscle shrinkage, weakness, rigidity and tightness in spite of training what blood tests would you order?
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A 22-year old male asked:
Why spasticity affects the antigravitational muscles more while rigidity affects both similarly?
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A 25-year old female asked:
In "muscular rigidity" in serotonin syndrome are the muscles actually rigid to the touch?
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A 25-year old female asked:
If serotonin induced muscular rigidity causes the muscles to contract then are the blood vessels in those muscles also forced to contract?
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A 33-year old male asked:
Pain in neck. Mycolic jerks balance problems muscle rigity and strength more sweating in armpit tremor in hand. Pain in neck is bad. Had images done. ?
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A 33-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Catatonic rigidity?
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A 42-year old female asked:
pin pickling pain with rigidity to stomach with sob..what can it be? I'm healthy without any medical problems 42 yr old female.
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A 22-year old male asked:
How do we differentiate spasticity and rigidity? What are the differences?
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A 19-year old male asked:
I masturbate 2 times per day on average.while masturbating 1st time i do it while 2nd n 3rd it looks very hardly . so i feel i will not be able to perform sex and not satisfied about sex timing.how to get rigidity in penis and to quit masturbation?
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A 33-year old asked:
Looked up symptoms in medical book. What is rigidity?
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A 37-year old asked:
Difference between spasticity and rigidity?
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A 39-year old asked:
How much rigidity is normal during erection?
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A 39-year old asked:
What part of the body provides structure and rigidity?
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A 30-year old asked:
What is the main difference between rigidity and spasticity?
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A 39-year old male asked:
I feel rigidity between my toes and feet though there is no pain.
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A 29-year old female asked:
My aunt age is 50yrs. She is feeling right knee pain when she sit on floor and stand up. She feels some rigidity at knee. no other isuues.
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A 33-year old male asked:
Full erction with partial rigidity & slightly bendable penis, venous insufficiancy (right veno occlusive failure) could you tell me treatment?
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A 43-year old asked:
What is the difference between lead pipe and clasp knife rigidity?
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A 37-year old asked:
Does rigidity of aterial walls give you high blood pressure?
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A 34-year old male asked:
Don't know what happening or what it is I've had two years of neck pain Day and night Rigidity Trouble moving left to right Pain up and down my neck. ?
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