From being on this site and asking people such as Wright, I have been told that with ALS atrophy, weakness must procede atrophy. I am not writing here to dispute this, but I am just writing here to ask some questions. One of which is a specific question to you and one a more general atrophy muscle wasting question.
1. If your atrophy occurs in a muscle you don't use much (in my left foot it is side of foot and between same left foot tendons) would you still have weakness proceeding atrophy, or could be it be the other way round?
2. This is a more general question and will just allow me and others to understand ALS muscle wasting atrophy better with it. In ALS does atrophy occur because of paralysis and weakness in a muscle or is it because of a neurological problem? I say this because in reading about ALS, it says neurologist's look for fasciculation coupled with atrophy or weakness. This would suggest you can have atrophy first without weakness?
I might admittedly have health anxiety, but these questions are just to help me to allow me to understand it better, and not from flying into an state of health anxiety.
Thank You
1. If your atrophy occurs in a muscle you don't use much (in my left foot it is side of foot and between same left foot tendons) would you still have weakness proceeding atrophy, or could be it be the other way round?
2. This is a more general question and will just allow me and others to understand ALS muscle wasting atrophy better with it. In ALS does atrophy occur because of paralysis and weakness in a muscle or is it because of a neurological problem? I say this because in reading about ALS, it says neurologist's look for fasciculation coupled with atrophy or weakness. This would suggest you can have atrophy first without weakness?
I might admittedly have health anxiety, but these questions are just to help me to allow me to understand it better, and not from flying into an state of health anxiety.
Thank You