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 appropriately. However, with MD, the nerves are fine and send the entire essential signals but because the muscles themselves are impaired they will not obey those directions from the nerves and so agility is limited. Those with muscular dystrophy can also have their real growth affected. The muscles have to stretch and grow as the bones grow but often they are impaired to the point where they are not growing as the kid does. This can cause pain and constant weakness. This ailment can be cured via stem cell treatment for muscular dystrophy.