Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Exercise-induced myalgia
Exercise-induced muscle pain
HP:0003738
What it means
The occurrence of an unusually high amount of muscle pain following exercise.
Rare diseases that can present with this19
Very common80–99%
3Common30–79%
11- Adult-onset chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia with mitochondrial myopathy
- Anoctamin-5-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R12
- Carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase II deficiency, severe infantile form
- Distal myopathy with anterior tibial onset
- Genetic recurrent myoglobinuria
- Glycogen storage disease due to lactate dehydrogenase M-subunit deficiency
- Glycogen storage disease due to phosphoglycerate kinase 1 deficiency
- Medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency
- Miyoshi myopathy
- Vocal cord and pharyngeal distal myopathy
The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Muscle pain on exercise · Muscle pain with exercise · Muscle pain, exercise-induced
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