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myalgia

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Also known as muscle ache, muscle pain, muscles ache

Myalgia or muscle pain is a painful sensation evolving from muscle tissue. It is a symptom of many diseases. The most common cause of acute myalgia is the overuse of a muscle or group of muscles; another likely cause is viral infection, especially when there has been no injury.

Key facts

Medical condition.name
Myalgia
Medical condition.synonym
Muscle pain, muscle ache
Medical condition.image
Symptoms-muscle-pain.jpg
Medical condition.image_size
300px
Medical condition.caption
One of the myalgic symptoms
Medical condition.specialty
Rheumatology

via Wikipedia infobox

Research

15,737 papers

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Encyclopedic overview

11 sections
Contents
  • Causes
  • Overuse
  • Injury
  • Autoimmune
  • Metabolic defect
  • Other
  • Withdrawal syndrome from certain drugs
  • Treatment
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Myalgia or muscle pain is a painful sensation evolving from muscle tissue. It is a symptom of many diseases. The most common cause of acute myalgia is the overuse of a muscle or group of muscles; another likely cause is viral infection, especially when there has been no injury.

Long-lasting myalgia can be caused by metabolic myopathy, some nutritional deficiencies, ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, and amplified musculoskeletal pain syndrome.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “myalgia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.