Every day, thousands of people are faced with various diseases and conditions that affect them or their loved ones with life changing disabilities. Disabilities that are of a neurological nature usually are those that are the most life altering or threatening disorders and conditions. Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease is one of these conditions. Even though Charcot-Marie Tooth (CMT) is a genetic disease which affects the sensory and motor nerves, the patient can survive and be treated for this condition (www.hnf-cure.org).
Despite its misleading name, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease has nothing to do with your teeth, CMT is the last name of each co-founder physician who discovered this disease. Jean-Martin Charcot and Pierre Marie from Paris, France, …show more content…
Neurological conditions can be caused by various factors ranging from trauma and injury to those caused systematically, like Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Although not as well-known as other neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and ALS, CMT is one of the most common inherited neurological muscular diseases that affects nearly 1 in 2,500 people in the U.S. today (www.hnf-cure.org). Also known as HMSN, heredity motor and sensory neuropathy. Motor nerves controls our muscles ability to contract, which affects our ability to walk and control voluntary muscle activity such as speaking, breathing, and …show more content…
Type 3 CMT is rare and it turns into another disease by itself it is called, Dejerine-Scottas disease. This disease happens like Type 1 but it packs a harder punch and it begins at infancy (www.peripheralneuropathycenter.uchicago.edu).
As said before, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is not fatal in most cases. Some citizens who have it might find it very hard to live with but at least they are alive. It is possible to have a normal life living with Charcot-Marie-tooth, but patients also have to be cautious (www.hnf-cure.org). If careless when out in the streets with the disease, it might get worse. In a severe case the patient will need to be in a wheel chair because their legs are too weak to hold themselves upright (www.peripheralneuropathycenter.uchicago.edu).
The research for finding a way to prevent or cure Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is reassuring, yet not quite there yet. Most of the disease lies with the patient’s genetics, so scientists are working with gene therapy experiments to hopefully find some way for this cure to not be an issue anymore (www.ninds.nih.gov). With the right funding toward Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease scientists, they can discover more ways to prevent the disease gene from being passed down
Despite its misleading name, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease has nothing to do with your teeth, CMT is the last name of each co-founder physician who discovered this disease. Jean-Martin Charcot and Pierre Marie from Paris, France, …show more content…
Neurological conditions can be caused by various factors ranging from trauma and injury to those caused systematically, like Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Although not as well-known as other neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and ALS, CMT is one of the most common inherited neurological muscular diseases that affects nearly 1 in 2,500 people in the U.S. today (www.hnf-cure.org). Also known as HMSN, heredity motor and sensory neuropathy. Motor nerves controls our muscles ability to contract, which affects our ability to walk and control voluntary muscle activity such as speaking, breathing, and …show more content…
Type 3 CMT is rare and it turns into another disease by itself it is called, Dejerine-Scottas disease. This disease happens like Type 1 but it packs a harder punch and it begins at infancy (www.peripheralneuropathycenter.uchicago.edu).
As said before, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is not fatal in most cases. Some citizens who have it might find it very hard to live with but at least they are alive. It is possible to have a normal life living with Charcot-Marie-tooth, but patients also have to be cautious (www.hnf-cure.org). If careless when out in the streets with the disease, it might get worse. In a severe case the patient will need to be in a wheel chair because their legs are too weak to hold themselves upright (www.peripheralneuropathycenter.uchicago.edu).
The research for finding a way to prevent or cure Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is reassuring, yet not quite there yet. Most of the disease lies with the patient’s genetics, so scientists are working with gene therapy experiments to hopefully find some way for this cure to not be an issue anymore (www.ninds.nih.gov). With the right funding toward Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease scientists, they can discover more ways to prevent the disease gene from being passed down