Taking a Look at Muscular Dystrophy

Muscular dystrophy (MD) is the progressive weakening and deterioration of the skeletal muscles controlling movement. There isn’t only one type of this disease; MD is a group of over 30 genetic diseases. The diseases differ in many ways. Age of onset may be seen in infancy and childhood, or develop during teenage years through later in life. Types of MD differ in muscle distribution and extent of weakness, and rate of progression. Duchenne MD, as in James’ case, is the most common form. It’s primarily…

(Rankin, et al., 2005, p. 280). Muscular dystrophy is a group of diseases that cause progressive weakness and loss of muscle mass (Muscular Dystrophy Canada, 2015). The Muscular Dystrophy Canada has developed a web page available for those effected by muscular dystrophy and their caregivers. It is located at the web address www.muscle.ca. Information on this site varies from health education, financial support and raising awareness. To thoroughly examine the Muscular Dystrophy Canada web site for usability…

What is the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy? Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a sex-linked disease, which is inherited in a recessive fashion (National Human Genome Research Institute, 2013). Over thirty similar genetic disorders exist (Duchenne Foundation Australia, 2015). All types of muscular dystrophy are considered to be a rare disorder (Duchenne Foundation Australia, 2015). Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is most common in children and causes muscle weakness and wasting, which commonly begins in the…

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy What is the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy? Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a sex-linked disease, which is inherited in a recessive fashion (National Human Genome Research Institute, 2013). Over thirty similar genetic disorders exist (Duchenne Foundation Australia, 2015). All types of muscular dystrophy are considered to be a rare disorder (Duchenne Foundation Australia, 2015). Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is most common in children and causes muscle weakness and wasting, which…

Muscular Dystrophy It is only recently that medicine, biology and even health care have become not only a primary concern of society but also one of the central focuses of mainstream media. Indeed it is rare that a day goes by without an article on these topics on the cover of newspapers such as The New York Times. Whereas this type of information used to be reserved for people in the field, daily program's such as CNN's Your Health have brought the science and the debates around it to the center…

Case Study: Muscular Dystrophy Scott Shannon PHGY 220- Gerald McGraw October 31, 2014 Muscular dystrophy is a group of inherited diseases in which voluntary muscles or the muscles that control movement, gradually weaken. MD is caused by mutations in genes responsible for proper function and muscle structure. This disease in some forms, can also affect the heart and other organs. The mutations disable the cells from properly maintaining muscle. This advances to muscle weakness…

1.0 Abstract Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a degenerative X-linked recessive disorder usually resulting in death in the late third decade. Mutation of Dystrophin gene at Xp21 disrupts the mRNA reading frame resulting in absent dystrophin protein in muscle cells. Currently no therapy can counteract the disease effectively. Exon skipping with oligonucleotide administration restores the reading frame of the mRNA to produce truncated but functional dystrophin and requires repeated administration…

Collaborative Learning Community: MD IEP Grand Canyon University Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy The Individual Educational Plan (IEP) is the driving document that promotes academic success. It is important when designing the Individual Educational Plan that the annual goals are determined based on the team analyzing the disability…

Muscular Dystrophy The topic I chose is muscular dystrophy as a muscular disease, when we break the word down into word parts, muscul/o means muscle, -ar means pertaining to, dys- means abnormal and, -trophy means development. Muscular dystrophy is Inherited disease causing a progressive muscle degeneration,weakness, and atrophy. There are many different kinds of muscular dystrophy. They all cause muscle weakness and muscle loss. In muscular dystrophy, abnormal genes interferes with the production…

“If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease,” –Mattie Stepanek. Mattie was just one of the many unfortunate children diagnosed with a muscular dystrophy. The most severe of them all is Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy also known as DMD. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is caused by a defect or a mutation in the DMD gene located in the X chromosome. This gene provides instruction for a protein…