The Next Chapter star Leah Messer opens up about protecting her daughter Ali amid her muscular dystrophy diagnosis, while also encouraging her to make her own decisions. The reality star also shares ...

Mobility and positioning aids Braces, walkers, or wheelchairs help provide mobility and independence to people with muscular dystrophy. Standing with a walker, even for just a little bit each day ...

Most children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy will need a wheelchair to get around by the time they're teenagers. The disease also damages the heart and the muscles needed to breathe, which can ...

Leah Messer opens up about feeling conflicted in letting Ali assert her independence when the teen, who lives with muscular ...

Patient advocate Austin Leclaire, who died Feb. 1, played a pivotal role in spurring the development of the first medicines ...

Ray has congenital muscular dystrophy, which is marked by progressive weakening and wasting of the muscles. He needs a wheelchair to get around but it's too big to fit in a regular vehicle.

The rate of progression of the muscular dystrophies depends on the type of dystrophy. While some progress slowly, others confine the patient to a wheelchair within a few years. Significant advances in ...

And really keeping everything kind of stabilized with having muscular dystrophy, but she's also ... after the latter refuses to bring her wheelchair with her to a high school football game.