Electromyography

throughout the body- sending and receiving messages to the brain. Electro diagnostic testing helps the doctor to get a better understanding of how those electrical signals are functioning in the body. There are two types of electro diagnostic testing; Electromyography, more commonly known as an EMG, and Nerve Conduction Studies, or NCS. An EMG allows the doctor to monitor and understand the electrical action that takes place within the body. When a doctor performs an EMG, he/she sticks small…

160116 Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy “Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a genetic disease characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal or voluntary muscles which control movement” (Muscular dystrophy, 2013). Muscular dystrophy is classified into nine major types that each affect specific muscle groups, certain age groups and are identified by different signals. Duchenne muscular dystrophy most commonly affects males and is targeted at younger children (Facts about Muscular…

Dystrophin is a protein that is located in muscles that work with movement. The job of Dystrophin is to produce muscle proteins that protects the skeletal, cardiovascular and nervous system. Dystrophin plays an important role in protein complex that work together to strengthen muscle fiber and help prevent injuries. It also plays a role in cell signaling between proteins and chemical signals. However its main job is connecting and weighing down each structural framework between proteins and…

Fibromyalgia and Duchenne muscular dystrophy are both diseases found in the muscular system. These diseases have many different treatments used to make patients better. They have many different and some similar signs and symptoms of these diseases. The muscular and nervous systems have connections on working together. These systems have functions and main structures. I will be discussing these diseases and systems in the following paragraphs. Fibromyalgia disease is found in the muscle system…

Muscular Dystrophy Muscular Dystrophy is a group of disorders characterized by a progressive loss of muscle mass and consequent loss of strength. There are multiple types of muscular dystrophy, each type affecting a different part of the body. Examples would be Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which effects toddlers starting from their third birthday and causing them to be in a wheel chair by the time they are 12 and usually dying from respiratory failure in their late twenties, early thirties.…

Muscular dystrophy is a hereditary disease that causes the muscles in your body to weaken, and become wasted. It is a rare disease that affects 20,00 to 200,00 United States citizens per year. It can have life lasting effects on the ones infected. The Department of Medicine/Cardiology, at the University of Minnesota Medical School did a study on prevention for the most common fatal form of muscular dystrophy, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Duchenne Muscular dystrophy is caused by an absence of a…

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is progressive disease of the muscle, caused by defective or absent glycoprotein, dystrophin, in the membrane of the muscle wall. Dystrophin reinforces the myotube membrane skeleton by increasing its stiffness, thus a lack of dystrophin causes substantial reduction in muscle stiffness. Symptoms include ambulation difficulties, hyperopia and gross motor milestone delays in infants and children, calf hypertrophy, an imbalance in lower limb strength, and diminished…

Introduction Duchenne muscular dystrophy, or DMD, is the most common and severe type of muscular dystrophy, caused by a genetic disorder that leads to progressive muscle weakness and degradation (Marieb & Hoehn, 2015). DMD is a recessive sex-linked disease and is often inherited through the mother. Because this condition is enacted by a mutation of the X chromosome, it is expressed almost exclusively in males, with one in every 3,600 males affected worldwide (Marieb & Hoehn, 2015). The DNA…

Myotonic Dystrophy is an autosomal dominantly inherited disorder at which an individual has the inability to relax his or her muscles; thus progressing to muscle degeneration and decrease muscle tone [1]. Currently there are two types of muscular dystrophy that are known in the both the medical and scientific community. There’s type one myotonic dystrophy also known as congenital myotonic dystrophy which has an onset at birth. Then there is type two, myotonic muscular dystrophy which has an…

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most common form of all muscular dystrophies, is an X-linked disorder affecting approximately one in 5000 newborn boys. "(page1; paragraph 1; lines 1-4)" Patients are usually restricted to a wheelchair around the age of twelve and facing death somewhere between the ages twenty-five to thirty. DMD is caused when the dystrophin gene is mutated. That mutation stops the communication for a functional protein. The inadequacy of dystrophin causes muscle fiber…