Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is named after the French neurologist Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne who first described the disease. It is one of nine types of muscular dystrophy. Muscular dystrophy is characterized by progressive muscle degeneration (Muscular Dystrophy Association). Muscle weakness appears in early childhood and progressively worsens; children with DMD are generally wheel-chair dependent by adolescence. Along with the DMD affecting the skeletal system, the cardiac muscles…

your shoes on and head out the door. What do all of these tasks have in common? All of these everyday activities involve holding onto things and moving from one point to another. Now, imagine that you have Charcot Marie Tooth disease, a form of muscular dystrophy that causes muscle degeneration in the arms and legs along along with perpetual, shooting nerve pain. Your everyday morning routine has just become ten times harder than it was before. Now you have to watch your feet, making…

signaling between proteins and chemical signals. However its main job is connecting and weighing down each structural framework between proteins and molecules outside the cell. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a recessive muscle disorder caused by the mutation in the dystrophin gene. The word Dystrophy comes from Greek Dys- meaning abnormal and -atrophy meaning growth or nutrition.…

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 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…

Dysarthria is a collective term used to describe a group of motor speech disorders. (17) It is caused by the underlying neurological deficits that impact the muscular control and execution of movement required for speech production. (18) Dysarthria is a common symptom of many neurological disorders, and the features of the speech dysfunction are distinctive. (17) Classic dysarthric presentations are characterised by a disturbance in the subsystems of speech, namely respiration, phonation,…

Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy is a hereditary issue portrayed by dynamic muscle degeneration and shortcoming that happens more in males. It is one of nine sorts of solid dystrophy. DMD quality that can be acquired in families in an X-connected latent style, yet it frequently happens in individuals from families without a known family history of the condition. The quality is the second biggest quality to date, which encodes the muscle protein, dystrophin. Young men with Duchenne solid dystrophy…

Abstract: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a X-linked recessive condition in which a defective gene called dystrophin is inherited. Dystrophin is an essential protein for muscular strength and stability. DMD affects 1 out of 3600 males and the symptoms are more severe in males than in females. Symptoms of DMD include skeletal deformities, fatigue, learning and intellectual developmental delay, difficulty breathing, and heart disease. Diagnosing DMD is done through serum CPK, muscle biopsy,…

as DMD. Although later discovered, Edward Meryon described this genetic disease first, but by that time it had the title of “Duchenne” (Abramovitz p. 19-21). Out of nine different types (“Duchenne”), Duchenne MD, the most common of childhood muscular dystrophies (Abramovitz p. 19-21), is known as the second largest gene. Starting in the lower half of the body, over years the effects of DMD progressively move to the upper body (“Learning”). Living with the harsh effects of possibly…

M., Stam, H., & Pangailia, R. F. (2015, July 10). Prevalence of Fatigue, Pain, and Affective Disorders in Adults With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Their Associations With Quality of Life. In Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Retrieved October 6, 2016. In this article, Michael Burgen, Henk Stam, and Robert Pangailia explain how muscular dystrophy is a genetic, recessive, neuromuscular disease in which there is a lack of protein dystrophin which helps stabilize muscle…