MUSCYLAR DYSTROPHY

Question 1

What is Muscular Dystrophy ?

Answer 1

Group of rear inherited muscle disease involving muscle fibers.

Question 2

True or False. Muscles, primary voluntary muscles, becomes progressively weaker?

Answer 2

Ture

Question 3

True of False. In the last stage of muscular dystrophy, fat and connective tissues often replace muscles fibers?

Answer 3

Ture

Question 4

How MD affects children?

Answer 4

Depending on the kind.
Condition will get worst.
Resulting the inability to walk, talk, or care for themselves .
Doesn’t happen to everyone.

Question 5

Potential early indicated of the diagnosis?

Answer 5

Normal for the first few years of life.
Problems might appear later with movement. Such as stumble, waddle, going up the stairs, and toe walking.
Trouble standing up from chair.
Often children present enlarged calf muscles.

Question 6

Sign and Symptoms in general population include?

Answer 6

Fall down often, have weak muscles and muscle cramps, having trouble getting up, climbing stairs, running and jumping. Walking on their toes.
No common symptoms:
heart problems, scoliosis, swallowing and vision problems, weakness in the muscle of the face

Question 7

How MD is diagnosed

Answer 7

Physical exam

Medical history

Question 8

What causes of MD?

Answer 8

Genetic.
Caused by incorrect or missing genetic information the prevents the body from making the proteins needed to build and maintain health muscles.

Question 9

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is ?

Answer 9

Most common and server childhood of MD
Symptoms beginning between age 2 and 6
It mostly affects boys
Impacts more Hispanic boys .

Question 10

Common Comorbidities with the diagnosis consist of

Answer 10

Motor Delays 
Respiratory complications
Cardiomyopathy
Scoliosis 
Pain and Fatique

Question 11

Treatment for MD

Answer 11

NO TREATMENT IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
Certain medication aim to treat various problems resulted from MD and improve quality of life. 
Therapeutic Treatment include; 
Exercises
orthopedics, othroses
home modification
AD
Recomandations on environmental access
and Advocacy

Question 12

True or False. Kids with MD often develop enlarged calf muscles

Answer 12

Ture

Question 13

True or False. There are more than 10 kind of MD?

Answer 13

False

Question 14

Who is at the greatest risk to develop DMD?

Answer 14

4 year old boy

Question 15

Ducheme muscular dystrophy is caused by

Answer 15

Genetic mutation

Question 16

IN the late stage of MD what are muscles fibers replaced with ?

Answer 16

Fat and connective tissues

Question 17

What is the most common and sever childhood from of muscular dystrophy ?

Answer 17

Ducheme muscular dystrophy

Question 18

The most common symptoms of muscular dystrophy are?

Answer 18

Fall down, muscle weakness, muscle cramps and trouble getting up.

Question 19

One of the largest source of funding for neuromuscular disease research outside the federal government is?

Answer 19

Muscular Dystrophy Association (MD)

Question 20

Weakness and muscle atrophy start on ?

Answer 20

Pelvic area