What Is Muscular Dystrophy And How Can Doctors Treat It?
Muscular dystrophy is a family of syndromes categorized by the severe deterioration of muscle tissue. It literally means "defective nutrition of muscles" and is described by the progressive wasting and wearying of healthy muscle tissue and is substituted by unworkable fat and hard fibrous tissue. The ailment is considered essentially genetic. Some researchers believe that muscular dystrophy might be instigated by a malfunctioning of the central nerves system and others believe that the ailment starts within the walls of the muscle cells itself. Muscular dystrophy is different from ailments like multiple sclerosis in that it attacks the muscles themselves; this means a deficiency of muscle protein and the ultimate demise of muscle cells and tissues. When a patient has multiple sclerosis, their nerves are impaired while their muscles work fine. If the nerves cannot send signs telling the muscles to work, then their limbs and other zones of the body will not function appropria...