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Muscle weakness may be due to a problem in the brain, muscle or anywhere in between.
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Muscle tone

Postby FeatherMe on Sun Sep 21, 2008 5:50 pm

Would you please explain muscle tone and how you can have good muscle tone but have muscle weakness as well? Thank you.
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Re: Muscle tone

Postby clinicalguru3 on Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:19 am

Tone is the resistance of your muscle to passive movement.

A problem in the spine for instance, can "increase" the tone whereas severe motor nerve problems may "decrease" the tone.

Good tone means your muscles are not too stiff and not too floppy when moved passively although this does not mean that they are not weak (which is a description of "active" movement rather than "passive" resistance.

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