Monday 19 January 2015

Interesting muscle disease

Rippling muscle disease:

This is a disease in which the center of your body (close to thigh) muscles are very sensitive and ripple when used. The muscles are unusually sensitive and easily irritated. The ripples last for about 30 seconds and may or may not be painful. Symptoms include overgrowth of some muscles, fatigue, soreness of muscles and walking patterns may change (such as walking on tip toes) the disease usually starts in late teen years when you start to exercise more often and muscles fully grow. People usually get the disease from genes. It is caused by mutations in the CAV3 gene.

Video of the rippling in action:
http://youtu.be/RicWrvozUsQ

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