Symptoms of Muscular Dystrophy

Muscular Dystrophy refers to a large number of inherited muscle diseases which cause muscle weakness. The term dystrophy refers to the fact that these diseases can begin at birth or later in life but cause progressive weakness. This weakness can involve the face, arms or legs. In some cases children appeared weak from a very early age but in other cases a patient may benormal until their adult years and then start to show symptoms of muscle weakness. There are usually no associated sensory symptoms, meaning numbness tingling, and pain are relatively uncommon.
There are a large number of Muscular Dystrophies. The list below is not comprehensive but provides a brief description of the more common forms of muscular dystrophy.