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Patient trains exclusively the muscles they can see in the mirror. Chest: yes. Biceps: yes. Abs: yes. Front delts: enthusiastically yes. Back, glutes, hamstrings, rear delts, calves: these muscles, to patient, do not exist because they cannot be observed in the mirror during a flex. The posterior chain has been neglected for so long that patient's posture has begun to visibly tilt forward. A personal trainer has tried, gently, to raise this.
Chronic. Posture continues to deteriorate quarterly.
None. If it cannot be seen, it is not, in patient's view, a real muscle.
Patients with Terminal Mirror-Only Training Syndrome typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal Mirror-Only Training Syndrome is a terminal behavioral condition cataloged by the Institute. It is not recognized by the DSM-5, the ICD-11, or any existing diagnostic framework — and will not be, because it is not a real condition. It is, however, observed in the population with alarming frequency.
In the Institute's formal nomenclature, this condition is catalogued under the Latin binomial Exercitatio visu speculari directa — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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