Muscular dystrophy can appear in infancy up to middle ... Muscle weakness in the face and throat can make speaking difficult. Learning how to properly pace breathing and talking can be helpful.

In muscular dystrophy, the weakness is in the muscles ... Symptoms include: Muscle weakness in the face. This affects the person's ability to close the eyes and purse the lips (whistle).

Muscular Dystrophy (MD) is more than a medical condition ... or slurred speech as the disease progresses to the throat and face muscles. Different types of MDs follow their own paths: - Duchenne ...

Muscles in the face, shoulders, arms and legs begin to ... dystrophy type 1 and a subset of patients with Duchenne muscular ...

Johnny Quintana’s life changed at the age of 19 when he was diagnosed with a rare form of muscular dystrophy called ...

FSHD is the second most common form of muscular dystrophy after the Duchenne type ... It tends to cause muscle wasting in the face, shoulder blades, and upper arms. The deal – which includes ...

Prenatal diagnostic testing can now determine whether a fetus carries a debilitating or fatal sex-linked mutation. But with such screening, why hasn't the disease allele frequency gone down ...