Hypotonia (hy-poh-TOH-nee-uh) means decreased muscle tone. Even at rest, healthy muscle keeps a small amount of tension that gives it a springy feel and some resistance to movement. With hypotonia, that baseline tone is reduced, so the muscles feel soft or floppy. Hypotonia is not the same as muscle weakness, although the two can occur together, and it can point to a problem anywhere along the pathway that controls movement, from the brain and spinal cord to the nerves and muscles.
When Medicine Lost Its Compass
Evidence failed not because it was wrong, but because it was weaponized. I lived the downstream effects of that failure for more than a decade. This is what happens when medicine forgets that data always ends in a human being.
