Muscular Dystrophy

Muscular Dystrophy Muscular Dystrophy is a general term for a number of hereditary, degenerative disorders affecting skeletal muscles, and often other organs. It is a genetic disease that causes constant degeneration of the muscles. There are over 30 kinds of Muscular Dystrophy. Some forms of Muscular Dystrophy affect involuntary organs like the heart. This muscular disease can be seen in during infancy or may not be known until much later on in life. Muscular Dystrophy is different for each person that has it. It may be more progressive in one person that it is another, it may start to occur much earlier in one person than another, it could be inherited in one but not another, or it can be mild to very severe and ultimately cause death.