Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a genetically inherited disease that causes progressive muscle and bones weakness. The symptoms usually appear before age 6 and may appear as early as infancy. Symptoms can be noticed very early like not sitting and standing independently at the correct age. The age for walking for boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy is around 18 months. There is progressive muscle weakness of the legs and pelvic muscles‚ which is caused by a loss of muscle mass. This muscle weakness
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Page 1 A Genetic Disease: Muscular Dystrophy Genetic Disease Page 2 Abstract Muscular Dystrophy is an inherited disease that causes progressive muscle weakness and loss
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Introduction Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a dangerous and rare disorder. It’s transferred through family generations because it’s a genetic disease. In addition‚ Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is referred to by other names including DMD‚ Duchenne Syndrome‚ and Pseudohypertrophy. DMD is when the body cannot make dystrophin so it results in muscle weakness. Mode of Inheritance Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is an X-linked recessive disorder and that’s why it’s more common in males. As for females‚
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Muscular Dystrophy‚the progressive loss and weakness of muscle‚is a muscular disorder first described in the 1860’s by a french neurologist .The term Muscular Dystrophy encompasses any type of dystrophy of muscles‚about nine different types.The most common type is Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy which makes up approximately half of muscular dystrophy cases. Muscular Dystrophy is most present in boys‚but girls may also carry the gene‚although they usually show no symptoms.In 2007‚ it was revealed that
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Muscular Disorders Case Report Case: A mother presents with her 13 y/o son with a history of frequent falls‚ difficulty getting up from a lying or sitting position‚ trouble jumping‚ large calf muscles and poor grades in school. Based on the description and symptoms given‚ the likely diagnosis would be Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy‚ or DMD; although DMD and its symptoms tend to show up at an earlier age but not always. This type of muscular dystrophy is the most common and severe form of
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Mda.orgs goal is to disseminate information about Muscular Dystrophy in an effort to help people and families struggling with it‚ raise awareness and money‚ and educate people on the realities of this disease. The website provides many portals to different aspects about the disease. For instance; when you first are brought to the page the first options you see in the upper dashboard are links to “About us‚” “Neuromuscular Diseases‚” “Services‚” “Research‚” “Get Involved‚” “Blog‚” and “Donate”. The
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Improvements 6 The effect of exercise on the heart rate and breathing rate Introduction Aim: Finding out how exercise affects the heart rate and breathing rate. Hypothesis: Exercise exists in different forms and has many benefits; it improves the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood‚ development of bones‚ strengthens muscles and the lungs capacity plus it can make you feel good. There are different exercises and intensities for different benefits. Lower intensity exercises are not designed to
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NAME ____________________________________ LAB TIME/DATE _______________________ R E V I E W S H E E T EXERCISE 31 → Conduction System of the Heart and Electrocardiography The Intrinsic Conduction System 1. List the elements of the intrinsic conduction system in order‚ starting from the SA node. SA node → ATRIOVENTRICULAR (AV) NODE → → ATRIOVENTRICULAR (AV) BUNDLE BUNDLE BRANCHES PURKINJE FIBERS ATRIOVENTRICULAR (AV) NODE At what structure in the transmission sequence
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Exercises Audience relationship: The “You” Attitude Rewrite these sentences to reflect your audience’s viewpoint: 1. Your e-mail cannot be processed; we request that you use the order form on our website instead. Please use the order form on our website to enable to process ur email. 2. We insist that you always bring your credit card to the store. Please always bring your credit card to the store. 3. We want to get rid of all our CRT monitors to make room in our warehouse for the new LCD flat screen
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report is on what it takes to become physically fit. "Physical fitness is the ability of the human body to function with vigor and alertness‚ without undue fatigue‚ and with ample energy to engage in leisure activities‚ and to meet physical stresses". Muscular strength and endurance‚ cardiorespiratory integrity‚ and general alertness are the overt signs of physical fitness. Physical fitness is usually measured in relation to functional expectations-that is‚ typically‚ by periodic tests measuring strength
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