The Arkansas Railroad Museum preserves the last steam-powered locomotive built in Arkansas and includes various artifacts of Arkansasâs railroad heritage. The Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Historical Museum opened in 1980 in the restored 1907 Union Pacific train depot.
Neuromuscular transmission defects. Only myasthenia gravis will be discussed further. This disease is characterized by abnormal fatigue with exercise. Myasthenia gravis commonly affects young woman and has a predilection for ocular, facial, masticator and proximal upper extremity muscles. Typically the patients recover to some degree after rest.
A neuromuscular disease is a disorder that affects the peripheral nervous system.The peripheral nervous system includes muscles, the nerve-muscle (neuromuscular) junction, peripheral nerves in the limbs, and the motor-nerve cells in the spinal cord.Other spinal cord or brain diseases are not considered âneuromuscularâ diseases.Patients with neuromuscular diseases can have weakness, loss of muscle bulk, muscle twitching, cramping, numbness, tingling, and a host of other symptoms.Problems with the nerve-muscle junction can also cause droopy eyelids, double vision, and weakness that worsen with activity.ther spinal cord or brain diseases are not considered âneuromuscularâ diseases. Patients with neuromuscular diseases can have weakness, loss of muscle bulk, muscle twitching, cramping, numbness, tingling, and a host of other symptoms.