Twitching Calf Muscles: All About Dents

Muscle twitching? Do calf dents have you terrified? Calf dents are also sometimes referred to as indentations. But the preferred term for apparent (yes, note the word "apparent") calf muscle atrophy is calf dent. If you have clicked on this article, then you are most likely already deep within the agony of ALS fear originating from twitching muscles. So fearful are you that maybe you have ALS, that you've begun checking your lower legs for muscle atrophy.

Muscle twitching aside, you have discovered dents in one of your calves, or maybe just one dent there, and are wondering why the other calf doesn't have the same dent or groove. Could this be a sign of muscle atrophy in the calf with the dent? NO. What's really happening is that your mind is playing tricks on you, all because you probably googled muscle twitching. Though muscle atrophy is the result of ALS, a dent in a calf is not a hallmark sign of muscle atrophy.

Here is how this whole frightening process develops:

1) A person's lower leg muscle begins twitching. The twitching muscle persists and eventually becomes annoying enough that the person begins wondering, "Why on earth is my calf twitching?"

2) He or she then gets online and does a Google on calf muscle twitching. A bunch of links, containing the keywords of calf muscle twitching, comes up.

3) He or she anticipated some simple remedy for the twitching, such as maybe more water, a self-massage, or maybe the cause of twitching muscles is a mineral deficiency. But instead, as this person scrolls down the page of links, he discovers that fasciculations are a symptom of ALS, an always-fatal motor neuron disease that causes atrophy.

4) Panic strikes, and he becomes consumed with visiting all the ALS medical sites to learn more about this horrible disease. The more they read about ALS, the more they're convinced they have ALS.

5) The twitching in the lower leg now becomes more pronounced. Not only that, but other areas of the body begin twitching. The muscle twitching has "spread."