tonic dystrophy
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Myotonic dystrophy Myotonic dystrophy is part of a group of inherited disorders called muscular dystrophies. It is the most common form of muscular dystrophy that begins in adulthood. Myotonic dystrophy is characterized by progressive muscle wasting and weakness. People with this disorder often have prolonged muscle contractions (myotonia) and are not able to relax certain muscles after use.
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muscular dystrophy Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) — The most severe form of muscular dystrophy, DMD usually affects young boys and causes progressive muscle weakness, usually beginning in the legs.Dystrophin — A protein that helps muscle tissue repair itself. Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD): EDMD affects young boys, causing contractures and weakness in the calves, weakness in the shoulders and upper arms, and problems in the way electrical impulses travel through the heart to make it beat (heart conduction defects).
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- Dystonia and Parkinson's Disease (PD) are movement disorders that are closely related. First, both conditions can occur together in certain diseases. People living with PD may experience dystonia as an early symptom or as a motor complication of treatment. Tremors that are present only with movement of the limb are usually due to other conditions. 2  While it is present in many patients, approximately 25% of people living with PD never develop a tremor. 3  Rigidity: Rigidity or muscle stiffness may impair the full range of limb motion and interfere with normal activities.
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a recessive X-linked form of muscular dystrophy, affecting around 1 in 3,600 boys, which results in muscle degeneration and premature death.The disorder is caused by a mutation in the gene dystrophin, located on the human X chromosome, which codes for the protein dystrophin.uchenne muscular dystrophy is a rare progressive disease which eventually affects all voluntary muscles and involves the heart and breathing muscles in later stages.
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- Duchenne muscular dystrophy: The best-known form of muscular dystrophy, due to mutation in a gene on the X chromosome that prevents the production of dystrophin, a normal protein in muscle. DMD affects boys and, very rarely, girls.he muscular dystrophies associated with defects in dystrophin range greatly from the very severe Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) to the far milder Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD).
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Muscular dystrophy Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a group of muscle diseases that results in increasing weakening and breakdown of skeletal muscles over time. The disorders differ in which muscles are primarily affected, the degree of weakness, how fast they worsen, and when symptoms begin. Many people will eventually become unable to walk.
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Types of Muscular Dystrophy and Neuromuscular Diseases Muscular dystrophy is a group of inherited diseases that are characterized by weakness and wasting away of muscle tissue, with or without the breakdown of nerve tissue.ymptoms include general muscle weakness and wasting; affects pelvis, upper arms, and upper legs; eventually involves all voluntary muscles; survival beyond 20s is rare.
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Overview Overview. Becker muscular dystrophy is a genetic condition that causes your muscles to become damaged and weakened over time, resulting in loss of muscle tissue. If you have this condition, you could begin to experience problems walking around age 16.ecker muscular dystrophy usually affects boys, with symptoms appearing between age 5 and 15. There is more than one type of muscular dystrophy, and Becker is similar to another type known as Duchenne. Becker is less severe and less common.
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Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy Muscular dystrophies are a group of genetic conditions characterized by progressive muscle weakness and wasting (atrophy). The Duchenne and Becker types of muscular dystrophy are two related conditions that primarily affect skeletal muscles, which are used for movement, and heart (cardiac) muscle.
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Muscular Dystrophy Muscular dystrophy (MD) refers to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases that cause progressive weakness and degeneration of skeletal muscles used during voluntary movement.The word dystrophy is derived from the Greek dys, which means difficult or faulty, and troph, or nourish..uscular dystrophy (MD) refers to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases that cause progressive weakness and degeneration of skeletal muscles used during voluntary movement.
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Dystonia and Parkinsonâs Disease Symptoms. There are symptoms of Parkinson’s disease that could be perceived as dystonic. For example, someone with Parkinson’s may develop certain postures and changes in their extremities that are symptomatic of dystonia. Flexion of the neck or of the feet is common. lack of dopamine is thought to be the cause of Parkinson’s and is also believed to play a role in dystonia, though researchers are unsure as to what that role is. The drug Levodopa is used to treat both conditions.
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Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy. More than 2,000 mutations in the DMD gene have been identified in people with the Duchenne and Becker forms of muscular dystrophy. These conditions occur almost exclusively in males and are characterized by progressive muscle weakness and wasting (atrophy) and a heart condition called dilated cardiomyopathy.
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Types of Muscular Dystrophy and Neuromuscular Diseases Muscular dystrophy is a group of inherited diseases that are characterized by weakness and wasting away of muscle tissue, with or without the breakdown of nerve tissue.acioscapulohumeral. childhood to early adults. Symptoms include facial muscle weakness and weakness with some wasting of shoulders and upper arms; progression is slow with periods of rapid deterioration; life span may be many decades after onset.
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- Muscular dystrophies are a group of diseases that are passed down genetically. These diseases cause damage and weakness to muscles over time. This damage and weakness is caused by the lack of a protein called dystrophin, which is necessary for normal muscle function.The absence of this protein can cause problems with walking, swallowing, and muscle coordination.hese diseases cause damage and weakness to muscles over time. This damage and weakness is caused by the lack of a protein called dystrophin, which is necessary for normal muscle function. The absence of this protein can cause problems with walking, swallowing, and muscle coordination.
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Types of Muscular Dystrophy and Neuromuscular Diseases Muscular dystrophy is a group of inherited diseases that are characterized by weakness and wasting away of muscle tissue, with or without the breakdown of nerve tissue.here are nine types of muscular dystrophy, with each type involving an eventual loss of strength, increasing disability, and possible deformity. The most well known of the muscular dystrophies is Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) , followed by Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) .
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Muscular Dystrophy Muscular dystrophy is a group of diseases that make muscles weaker and less flexible over time. It is caused by a problem in the genes that control how the body keeps muscles healthy. For some people, the disease starts early in childhood.Others don’t have any symptoms until they are teenagers or middle-aged adults. Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy affects the muscles of the face, shoulders, and upper arms. 2  It can affect anyone from teenagers to adults in their 40s. 3  Distal muscular dystrophy affects the muscles of the arms, legs, hands, and feet.
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Muscular Dystrophy: A-to-Z Guide from Diagnosis to Treatment to Prevention Children with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy appear normal until the school years or even into young adulthood. Weakness develops first in the muscles close to the trunk–around the shoulders and hips. Most can walk until about age 30. Enlargement of the calf muscles is also common in this condition.
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Dystonia Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder syndrome in which sustained or repetitive muscle contractions result in twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal fixed postures. The movements may resemble a tremor. Dystonia is often intensified or exacerbated by physical activity, and symptoms may progress into adjacent muscles.
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Dystonia and Parkinson's disease Parkinson’s disease and dystonia. Parkinson's disease is a neurological movement disorder with a wide range of symptoms including slowness of movement, rigidity of muscles, memory impairment and others.Both Parkinson’s disease and dystonia can arise in the same person because they seem to originate in the same part of the brain: the basal ganglia.owever, the most common cause of dystonia in Parkinson’s patients is a secondary dystonia arising from the effect of treating Parkinson’s disease using the medication, Levodopa.
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- The muscular dystrophies (MD) are a group of more than 30 genetic diseases characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles that control movement.Some forms of MD are seen in infancy or childhood, while others may not appear until middle age or later.oys with Becker MD (very similar to but less severe than Duchenne MD) have faulty or not enough dystrophin. Facioscapulohumeral MD usually begins in the teenage years. It causes progressive weakness in muscles of the face, arms, legs, and around the shoulders and chest.
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Distal Myopathies What is distal muscular dystrophy (DD)? First described in 1902, DD is a class of muscular dystrophies that primarily affect distal muscles, which are those of the lower arms, hands, lower legs and feet. Muscular dystrophies in general are a group of genetic, degenerative diseases primarily affecting voluntary muscles.
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Muscular Dystrophy Muscular dystrophies are a group of genetic disorders that result in muscle weakness over time. Each type of muscular dystrophy is different from the others. It is important to get help as early as possible. Muscular dystrophy has no cure, but acting early may help an individual with muscular dystrophy get the services and treatments he or she needs to lead a full life. Basics Facts, signs, diagnosis, and treatment.
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Bargain Hunt discount chain to open two Birmingham stores Bargain Hunt discount chain to open two Birmingham stores. BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Essex Bargain Hunt, a Nashville-based chain of retail stores that sell goods acquired through liquidations, has signed a lease to place a store in Crestwood Festival Center and is near a deal for a second Birmingham location.
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- The muscular dystrophies (MD) are a group a group of genetic diseases characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal or voluntary muscles which control movement.uchenne MD is the most common form of MD and primarily affects boys. It is caused by the absence of dystrophin, a protein involved in maintaining the integrity of muscle. Onset is between 3 and 5 years and the disorder progresses rapidly.
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Muscular Dystrophy Muscular dystrophy is a group of diseases that make muscles weaker and less flexible over time. It is caused by a problem in the genes that control how the body keeps muscles healthy. For some people, the disease starts early in childhood. Others don’t have any symptoms until they are teenagers or middle-aged adults. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common form. 2  It mainly affects boys, and starts between ages 3 and 5. 3  Becker muscular dystrophy is like Duchenne, except milder. 4  It also affects boys but the symptoms start later -- between ages 11 and 25.