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  2. Frailty syndrome - Wikipedia

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    The reduced reserve capacity of organ systems, muscle, and bone create a state where the body is not capable of coping with stressors such as illness or falls. Frailty can lead to increased risk of adverse side effects, complications, and mortality. [7] Older age by itself is not what defines frailty, it is however a syndrome found in older adults.

  3. Essential tremor - Wikipedia

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    Essential tremor (ET), also called benign tremor, familial tremor, and idiopathic tremor, is a medical condition characterized by involuntary rhythmic contractions and relaxations (oscillations or twitching movements) of certain muscle groups in one or more body parts of unknown cause. [6]

  4. Tremor - Wikipedia

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    The doctor will also check for tremor symmetry, any sensory loss, weakness or muscle atrophy, or decreased reflexes. A detailed family history may indicate if the tremor is inherited. Blood or urine tests can detect thyroid malfunction, other metabolic causes, and abnormal levels of certain chemicals that can cause tremor.

  5. Dystonia - Wikipedia

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    Causes painful defecation, constipation; may be complicated by encopresis or fecal incontinence. Cervical dystonia (spasmodic torticollis) muscles of the neck: Causes the head to rotate to one side, to pull down towards the chest, or back, or a combination of these postures. Blepharospasm: muscles around the eyes

  6. Palsy - Wikipedia

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    Palsy is a medical term which refers to various types of paralysis [1] or paresis, often accompanied by weakness and the loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.

  7. Conversion disorder - Wikipedia

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    Weakness/paralysis of a limb or the entire body (hysterical paralysis or motor conversion disorders) Impairment or loss of speech (hysterical aphonia) Difficulty swallowing or a sensation of a lump in the throat; Urinary retention; Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures or convulsions; Persistent dystonia; Tremor, myoclonus or other movement disorders

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    Causes of pneumonia in the elderly Pneumonia can be caused by a buildup of bacteria, viruses, or fungi in the lungs. There are several types of bacteria that can cause pneumonia, some typical and ...

  9. Magnesium deficiency - Wikipedia

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    Deficiency of magnesium can cause tiredness, generalized weakness, muscle cramps, abnormal heart rhythms, increased irritability of the nervous system with tremors, paresthesias, palpitations, low potassium levels in the blood, hypoparathyroidism which might result in low calcium levels in the blood, chondrocalcinosis, spasticity and tetany, migraines, epileptic seizures, [7] basal ganglia ...

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