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Shoulder muscle weakness
Shoulder muscle weakness is a symptom in which a person has weakness in one or both shoulders, which may cause difficulty in raising the arms above the level of the shoulders (such as in washing, drying, and brushing hair). Sometimes, autoimmune diseases (a person's immune system is damaging his own body) can lead to shoulder muscle weakness.
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