Muscular Dystrophy is a disease in which the muscles become
weak over time. People with md have missing information in there
genes because muscular dystrophy is genetic, people are born with
this problem. WHAT IS MD?
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symptoms There are many types of muscular dystrophy. Myotonic
Duchenne Becker But the most common ones are Duchenne and Becker.
With myotonic muscular dystrophy, you get muscle spasms, stiffening
of the hands and overall weakness. With Duchenne and Becker you
experience clumsiness, frequent falling and a curvature of the
spine. Also, a high level of creatine kinase. A child with md WHAT
ARE SYMPTOMS OF MD?
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Muscular dystrophy effects 1 out of every 5,600 people in the
united states between the ages 5 through 24. Muscular dystrophy
mainly effects males. Muscular dystrophy effects any race HOW
COMMON IS IT?
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Causes Since muscular dystrophy is genetic, the only real cause
of it is mutation of the gene dystrophin, hence the name dystrophy.
Treatments WHAT ARE CAUSES AND TREATMENT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY?
There is no treatment or prevention from md. There is physical and
speech therapy, and various orthopedic devices. Everyone who has
muscular dystrophy has it differently, so no two treatments are
exactly the same.
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There are 8 different types of muscular dystrophy!
Becker/duchenne, Limb-girdle, Facioscapulohumeral, Distal,
Emery-dreifuss, Fukuyama, oculopharyngeal, and ophthalmoploegic
Vegetable oil has reversed the process of muscular dystrophy in an
experiment with affected chickens. Each year 20,000 children are
born with muscular dystrophy worldwide! INTERESTING FACTS