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When a patient is presenting with flaccidity, hypotonicity, & hyporeflexia, they are have what kind of issue?

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Answer:

All in common are problems with tissues and muscles

Step-by-step explanation:

Damage anywhere along the reflex arc causes hyporeflexia. These tissues include:

Sensory nerve fibers.

Sensory nerve cells or neurons.

Spinal cord.

Motor nerve cells or neurons.

Motor fibers.

Hypotonia means decreased muscle tone. It can be a condition on its own, called *benign congenital hypotonia*, or it can be indicative of another problem where there is progressive loss of muscle tone, such as muscular dystrophy or cerebral palsy. It is usually detected during infancy.

Flaccidity is type of paralysis in which a muscle becomes soft and yields to passive stretching, which results from loss of all or practically all peripheral motor nerves that innervated the muscle.

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