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Exercise and rest in hyperkalemic periodic paralysis

University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS.

The effect of muscle immobility, with and without prior vigorous exercise, on amplitude and area of the compound muscle action potential (CMAP) to supramaximal nerve stimulation was studied in a family with hyperkalemic periodic paralysis. Amplitude and area of different CMAPs were measured during basal state, sustained immobility, and after brief maximal voluntary exercise of these muscles. Sustained immobility reduced the amplitude and area of the CMAP, with maximal effect occurring after 30 minutes. Though brief intense exercise seemed to minimally accentuate these effects of subsequent immobility at certain times, serial CMAP monitoring over 60 minutes did not reveal major differences between exercised and nonexercised muscles. Muscle immobility in itself can alter the CMAP in hyperkalemic periodic paralysis. Prior intense muscle exercise may accentuate this to some degree. This appears to be the electrophysiologic correlate of the characteristic symptom of focal weakness induced by rest after exercise.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Or. Subramony, Department of Neurology, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39216.

Accepted for publication May 30, 1985.

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