Muscular Dystrophy is the general term for nine kinds of genetic disorders causing degeneration of the skeletal muscles of the human body. Our bodies require and manufacture specific proteins to support muscle development (like “food” for the muscles). In muscular Dystrophy, an error in genetic information causes the body to manufacture those proteins improperly, or not at all. This causes the muscles to slowly deteriorate. Sometimes this deterioration becomes evident very early in life, and other times it doesn’t appear until well into adulthood. A common form of muscular dystrophy which appears in childhood is called Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). … Continue reading →