muscular atrophy

Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is a hereditary neuromuscular disorder. It causes progressive paralysis of the extremities with subsequent muscle wasting. There is no known causative cure. What is Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease? Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is the name given to an inherited neuromuscular disease. In this type of disease, muscle breakdown occurs due to nerves. The disease is named after … Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Madras Motor Neuron Disease: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Motoneuron disease Madras is a disorder that is essentially characterized by marked limb weakness in affected patients. The disease usually takes its beginning in the phase of puberty. Atrophy of the limbs develops, and paralysis of various nerves of the brain also occurs. In addition, individuals suffer from sensorineural hearing loss. What is Madras motor … Madras Motor Neuron Disease: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Fazioscapulohumeral Dystrophy (FSHD)

Synonyms Fazioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, FSHMD, muscular dystrophy Landouzy-Dejerine : FSH Dystrophy, Facioscapularhumeral (Muscular) Dystrophy. Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, often abbreviated FSHD, is the third most common form of hereditary muscular dystrophy. The name describes the early and particularly severely affected muscle areas: However, as the disease progresses, other muscle areas (leg, pelvic and trunk muscles) also … Fazioscapulohumeral Dystrophy (FSHD)

Stimulation Current Therapy: Treatment, Effects & Risks

Stimulation current therapy is an alternative procedure from electrotherapy or electromedicine. The natural conductivity of the human organism is used to stimulate weakened muscles or nerves with electric current. What is stimulation current therapy? Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is an electromedical stimulation current therapy. The goal of this therapy is to affect nerve pathways … Stimulation Current Therapy: Treatment, Effects & Risks

Muscular dystrophy

Synonyms Muscular atrophy, progressive muscular dystrophy; Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Becker-Kiener dystrophy, myotonic dystrophy, Fazio-Scapulo-Humeral muscular dystrophy, FSHD Summary Muscular dystrophies are congenital diseases of the musculature, which lead to a progressive loss of muscle mass and increasing weakness through a disturbance in the structure and/or metabolic processes of the muscles. To date, more than 30 … Muscular dystrophy

Causes | Muscular dystrophy

Causes The causes of progressive muscle atrophy and weakness are congenital defects in the structure of the muscle cells and in muscle metabolism. In many cases of muscular dystrophies, however, the exact mechanism of the disease has not yet been clarified. Symptoms The affected persons are conspicuous by an increasing weakness of affected body parts, … Causes | Muscular dystrophy

Differential diagnoses | Muscular dystrophy

Differential diagnoses Muscle weakness and atrophy can be symptoms of a number of other conditions that may need to be ruled out. These include above all: Diseases of the nerves and spinal cord, e.g. poliomyelitis (“polio”), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or multiple sclerosis. The exclusion is based on clinical picture, measurement of nerve conduction velocity and … Differential diagnoses | Muscular dystrophy

Prognosis: | Muscular dystrophy

Prognosis: The prognosis depends to a large extent on the involvement of the heart and respiratory muscles and thus varies considerably between the different muscular dystrophies. While e.g. Duchenne type Duchenne at a young age leads to death by cardiac insufficiency or respiratory tract infections, life expectancy is not limited in more benign forms. However, … Prognosis: | Muscular dystrophy

Muscle Atrophy: Diagnosis and Therapy

In addition to the typical clinical symptoms, which are more pronounced in different muscle groups depending on the type and often already point the physician in the direction of the diagnosis, laboratory tests and functional tests lead to the diagnosis. In the case of muscular dystrophies, there is typically an increase in muscle enzymes in … Muscle Atrophy: Diagnosis and Therapy