Muscular atrophy

Muscular atrophy is the decrease in size and wasting of muscle tissue. Muscles that lose their nerve supply can atrophy and simply waste away.
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Spinal muscular atrophy
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We look at the causes and symptoms of the genetic disorder spinal muscular atrophy, as well as the forms of care patients receive.
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a genetic condition in which the muscles throughout the body are weakened because the cells in the spinal cord and motor nerves do not work properly.
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Muscular atrophy
Definition:
Uncoordinated movement is an abnormality of muscle control or an inability to finely coordinate movements, resulting in a jerky, unsteady, to-and-fro motion of the trunk or the limbs.
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Juvenille Spinal Muscular Atrophy (Kugelburg-Welander Disease)
- Symptoms:
Slowly progressing weakness starting in shoulders, thighs and hips; may develop abnormal gait and curve of lower spine; may continue to walk or use a wheelchair later in life.
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In progressive spinal muscular atrophy and related syndromes, the motor neurons in the spinal cord are primarily affected. With progressive bulbar palsy, the initial degeneration occurs in the brainstem.
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Progressive neuropathic (peroneal) muscular atrophy
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CAUSES"Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common motor neuron disease, resulting in muscular atrophy.
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CMT exists in many forms, each different in inheritance pattern, age of onset, signs and symptoms, severity, and progression. Other names for CMT include hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy and peroneal muscular atrophy.
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