Types of conditions
There are many different types of muscular dystrophy, and each affects different muscles. The severity of conditions and how they affect individuals varies greatly from person to person. Most conditions are progressive, causing the muscles gradually to weaken over time, and can either be inherited or occur out of the blue where there is no family history.
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- Becker muscular dystrophy
- Bethlem myopathy
- Central core disease
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT)
- Congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD)
- Congenital myasthenic syndromes
- Congenital myotonic dystrophy
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
- Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSH)
- Fibre-type disproportion
- Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP)
- Inclusion body myositis (IBM)
- Juvenile dermatomyositis
- Limb girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD)
- Limb girdle muscular dystrophy 1B (LGMD 1B)
- Limb girdle muscular dystrophy 1C (LGMD 1C)
- Limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2A (LGMD 2A)
- Limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2B (LGMD 2B)
- Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 2I (LGMD 2I)
- Manifesting carriers of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- McArdle disease
- Merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy: MDC1A
- Metabolic disorders
- Minicore (multicore) myopathy
- Mitochondrial myopathies
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myopathy
- Myotonias
- Myotonic dystrophy
- Myotubular (centronuclear) myopathy
- Nemaline myopathy
- Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD)
- Periodic paralyses
- Polymyositis, dermatomyositis and sarcoid myopathy
- Rigid spine syndrome
- Sarcoglycanopathies: LGMD2C, LGMD2D, LGMD2E and LGMD2F
- Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
- Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy
