Living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Vivek is a successful college graduate working from home for charities. He writes blogs‚ vlogs‚ gives disability advice and peer support. From this‚ you would think that Vivek is an average guy. Little would you know that Vivek has Duchenne muscular dystrophy‚ a disorder of the muscles. Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a rapid deterioration of muscular tissue. This can result in difficulty walking‚ enlarged calves‚ lack of motor skills development and fatigue
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Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy (MMD) is a disease genetically based and inherited from one generation to the next. Such disease is also known as dystrophia mytonica and Steinert¡¦s disease. This genetic defect was an unusual one that ascended from the unknown and shook the scientific community in the early 1990s. Unlike other types of dystrophy‚ MMD often doesn¡¦t appear to be a problem until adulthood and is characterized by myotonia‚ a delayed relaxation of the muscles after contraction. It is a form
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy General Description What is Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and where does it come from? Firstly‚ it is a kind of muscle dystrophy. The word dystrophy refers to when an organ or tissue wastes away. A muscle dystrophy is a group of many inherited disorders that cause loss of muscle tissue and weakness in muscles. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a genetic disorder characterized by progressive muscle degeneration and weakness caused by a defective gene for dystrophin‚ a protein
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a fatal genetic disorder that causes progressive muscle weakness throughout your body. This disorder is caused my mutations in the dystrophin gene. The dystrophin gene is responsible for the production of a muscle protein. So the muscles suffer a loss of protein and contractile fibers. Then the muscles replaced with fat and connective tissue. DMD mostly affects young males exclusively due to an x-linked recessive inheritance pattern
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Muscular Dystrophy‚ also referred to as “MD”‚ is a group of diseases that cause progressive weakness and loss of muscle mass (Mayo). In MD‚ abnormal genes interfere with the production of proteins needed to form the muscle’s health (Mayo). There are many long-term effects to this terrifying disease. The primary one‚ that being unable to walk. Muscular Dystrophy is a life-threatening disease that many pose questions and desire to learn more about. Muscular Dystrophy occurs in various forms. While
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Muscle Dystrophy and relation to Dystrophin Muscle dystrophy branches into many different kinds of muscle disease including myositis‚ multiple sclerosis and fibromyalgia. What makes it so important is that muscle dystrophy can be found in patients as young as infants and as old as adults. Also‚ some types of muscle dystrophy can be progressively disabling. Muscle diseases are present in infants and children because many of the diseases are hereditary. For example‚ Duchenne muscular dystrophy is both
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Roshan Mathew Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy 10/28/14 Myotonic muscular dystrophy is part of a group of muscular disorders that are called muscular dystrophies. It is the most common form of muscular dystrophy that begins in adulthood. “Myotonic dystrophy is characterized by progressive muscle wasting and weakness” (Myotonic‚ 2010). typically people who have this disorder have whats called myotonia‚ a prolonged muscle contraction‚ and they are not able to relax some muscles. For example
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Myotonic Dystrophy Different Types of Treatments Being Tested Today Myotonic Dystrophy: Treatments Being Studied Today As a child growing up I didn’t understand why my uncle was always confined to a wheelchair. I didn’t know why he would sip his drinks through a straw instead of picking up the glass. But now‚ I know my uncle suffers from Myotonic dystrophy‚ a muscular dystrophy that affects the person’s muscles‚ and other body systems (Learning About Myotonic Dystrophy‚ 1). Now
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similarities and differences?The therapies for both DMD and ALS are similar in the fact that they help to prolong the individual’s function and quality of life. The corticosteroids‚ after load reduction‚ and stretching exercises for Duchene’s Muscular Dystrophy increase muscle strength. The NPPV is used when diaphragm muscles become weak to 1. let the patient rest‚ keeping them from going into respiratory failure and 2. work
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Muscular Disorders Case Report Case: A mother presents with her 13 y/o son with a history of frequent falls‚ difficulty getting up from a lying or sitting position‚ trouble jumping‚ large calf muscles and poor grades in school. Based on the description and symptoms given‚ the likely diagnosis would be Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy‚ or DMD; although DMD and its symptoms tend to show up at an earlier age but not always. This type of muscular dystrophy is the most common and severe form of
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