Understanding your child's condition is an important step on your treatment journey. Learn about some of the conditions we treat in the Neuromuscular Medicine Program at Children's National:
- Acquired myopathies (polymyositis, dermatomyositis)
- Acquired neuropathies and polyneuropathies (Guillain-Barre syndrome, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy)
- Congenital muscular dystrophy (Collagen-VI, LAMA 2, alpha-dystroglycanopathy, SEPN 1)
- Congenital myasthenic syndromes
- Congenital myopathies (RYR1, MTM 1, nemaline)
- Dystrophinopathies (Becker and Duchenne muscular dystrophy)
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Hereditary neuropathies (Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease; CMT)
- Infantile botulism
- Metabolic myopathies (carnitine palmityl transferase deficiency, McArdle's disease and phosphofructokinase disease (Tarui's disease))
- Mitochondrial myopathies
- Muscular dystrophies
- Myasthenia gravis
- Neuromuscular disorders
- Pompe disease
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Traumatic neuropathies