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Myositis (Muscle Inflammation)
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Also known as: muscle inflammation · inflamed muscle · polymyositis · dermatomyositis · inflammatory muscle disease · muscle fibre inflammation · painful muscle · swollen muscle · muscular rheumatism · chronic muscle inflammation · muscle inflammation
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Your muscles are what set you in motion. They lift, carry, stretch, hold. Without them no step, no gesture, no action. The muscle is will made flesh — it translates the decision to do something into actual movement. When it becomes inflamed, when it aches and grows weak, it is not only tissue that is inflamed. It is the relationship between you and what you do in the world.
Myositis — medically speaking an inflammation of the skeletal musculature — manifests as weakness that comes out of nowhere, as stiffness that cannot be stretched away, as burning pain in tissue that is supposed to serve. Climbing stairs becomes an ordeal, standing up becomes an effort, lifting the arm becomes a question. The body that previously functioned as a matter of course suddenly refuses its service.
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