In recent years, he also suffered from Shy-Drager, a condition similar to Parkinson's disease that attacks the nervous system and affects muscle control.

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Max Sick, a great early-nineteenth-century German strongman, had such complete muscle control that he could make the various groups twitch in time to music.

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Some also have cataplexy, which involves sudden loss of muscle control.

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Botox has been approved to treat people with muscle-control disorders, such as uncontrollable blinking and crossed eyes, since 1989.

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The control group showed a decrease in soleus muscle mass and strength, the development of insulin resistance, and a loss of bone mineral density and resistance to breakage.

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As the Wall Street Journal noted this week in " Guys Left Behind (GLBs), " though we still haven't elected a female president (apparently the yardstick of equality these days), women are making it in terms of college education (nearly 60% of grads are women), political muscle (53% of 2008 electorate were women), market influence (women control 80% of consumer spending) and employment.

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It is a strange and slightly ghoulish idea, because it means that if a patient tries to flex his missing finger, for example, a muscle in another part of his body (which is now connected to the nerves that used to control the finger) contracts instead.

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Nine years after taking effective control of the Indonesian government, the former assistant bank clerk had used a wily combination of military muscle and political dexterity to stand alone as the guardian of his country's destiny.

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