Myotonic Dystrophy
Onset: Childhood to middle age.
Symptoms: Generalized weakness and muscle wasting affecting face, feet, hands
and neck first. Delayed relaxation of muscles after contraction. Children
that are affected at an early age are more severely affected.
Progression: Progression is slow, sometimes spanning 50 to 60 years.
Inheritance: Autosomal dominant.
Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy
Onset: Early adulthood to middle age.
Symptoms: First affects muscles of eyelid and throat.
Progression: Slow progression with swallowing problems common as disease progresses.
Inheritance: Autosomal dominant.
Other Types of Muscular Dystrophy
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Becker Muscular Dystrophy
Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy
Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
Infantile Progressive Spinal Muscular
Atrophy (Also known as SMA Type 1, Werdnig-Hoffman)
Juvenile Spinal Muscular Atrophy (Also
known as SMA Type 3, Kugelberg-Welander)
Spinal Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (SBMA) (Also
known as Kennedy's Disease and X-Linked SBMA)
Adult Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
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