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Muscular Dystrophy

Muscular dystrophy

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Muscular Dystrophy

What is muscular dystrophy??

Muscular Dystrophy is a group of disorders, including muscle weakness and loss of muscle tissue.

How do you get muscle dystrophy?

The conditions are usually inherited, and the different muscular dystrophies follow different inheritance.

What does it do?

Muscle Dystrophy causes muscle weakness, and loss of muscle tissue.

How does it affect the muscular system??

It affects the muscular system by destroying the muscles that makes you move. Because of this people can not move as well or not move at all.

How is it treated?

Muscular dystrophy can not be treated because it is an inherited disease, so that means your born with it. But medication and therapy can slow down the process of this.