Neuromuscular conditions covered by the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign

On this page are listed all of the neuromuscular conditions covered by the charity. There is a dedicated homepage for each of the more common conditions (see list on About your condition page). To find out about spinal muscular atrophy please visit The Jennifer Trust website at: www.jtsma.org.uk

Where details are known, links to support group websites are listed here. See also our links pages.

If you know of other support groups, please email web@muscular-dystrophy.org


Muscular dystrophies



Support groups: Duchenne Family Support Group, Parent Project UK Duchenne muscular dystrophy, FSH Support Group, Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPDM) Support Group

Myotonic disorders



Support group: Myotonic Dystrophy Support Group

Congenital myopathy



Mitochondrial myopathies

  • Defects of mitochondrial substrate utilisation
  • Defects of the respiratory chain
  • Defects of energy conservation and transduction


Email the support group: Mitochondrial Myopathies Support Group

Lipid storage myopathies

  • Carnitine deficiency
  • Carnitine palmityl transferase deficiency
  • Myoadenylate deaminase deficiency


Inherited metabolic myopathies

  • Glycogen storage disease of muscle
  • Type II (Pompe's disease - acid maltase deficiency)
  • Type III (Cori Forbes - debrancher enzyme deficiency)
  • Type IV (Andersen - brancher enzyme deficiency)
  • Type V (McArdle - phosphorylase deficiency)
  • Type VII (Tarui - phosphofructokinase deficiency)


Support groups: CLIMB (Children Living with Inherited Metabolic Diseases) and Association for Glycogen Storage Disease

Periodic paralysis (muscle channelopathies

Myositis



Support group: Myositis Support Group

Spinal muscular atrophies (SMA)

  • Severe SMA (Werdnig Hoffman disease - type I) 
  • Intermediate SMA (Type II) 
  • Mild SMA (Kugelberg Welander disease - type III) 
  • Adult SMA 
  • X-linked bulbospinal neuropathy (Kennedy's syndrome
  • Dominant SMA variants


Support Group: The Jennifer Trust for SMA

Hereditary neuropathies

  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
  • Peroneal muscular atrophy


Support group: Charcot-Marie-Tooth United Kingdom

Inflammatory & auto-immune neuropathies

  • Acute post infective polyneuropathy (Guillan Barre syndrome)
  • Chronic inflammatory demyelinating peripheral neuropathy (CIDP)
  • Serum neuropathy


Support group: Guillain-Barré syndrome support group

Disorders of the neuromuscular junction



Support Group: The Myasthenia Gravis Association

Myositis Ossificans Progressiva (MOP)

Myofibrillar myopathies