stiffness
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They can include muscle and joint aches, stiffness and swelling, reduced strength and pins and needles.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Deisseroth offered another example with Parkinson's disease, a progressive brain disorder that can cause shaking, stiffness and difficulty controlling movement.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
The disease is marked by symptoms including tremor, stiffness, slow movement, gait and balance problems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
In the knee, that process can cause pain, stiffness, inflammation, and difficulty walking or exercising.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
He put his head down on his arms across his knees, with stiffness taking his left leg, and cried until he was cried out.
From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
Increasingly it was more difficult to fight the aches and stiffnesses which tried to keep her in bed in the morning—not that they ever succeeded.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
It blows fogs, foul vapours, joint- stiffnesses, agues, pestilences, over us here,—yes, here!
From The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 4 by George Meredith
He seems to have loved the very stiffnesses of the form in which he worked.
From Euripedes and His Age by Gilbert Murray
The youthful works of genius are generally the best, their very crudities and stiffnesses adorable.
From The Altar Fire by Arthur Christopher Benson
And I felt very sorry for Carette, and did not wonder so much now at the little stiffnesses of manner I had noticed in her the last time we met.
From Carette of Sark by John Oxenham
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