Muscular dystrophy is an ailment that can have a very huge toll on the body. It is a group of congenital muscle diseases, in which muscle fibers are strangely vulnerable to mutilation and become increasingly weaker. In the late phases of the disease, fat and connective tissue often swap muscle fibers. This disease usually appears to be because of a hereditary shortage of the muscle protein, dystrophin. This group of ailments includes Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, Becker's muscular dystrophy, myotonic dystrophy (also recognized as Steinert's disease), facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (also identified as Landouzy-Dejerine dystrophy), limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, congenital muscular dystrophy, oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy, distal
