Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD ... Conventional drug treatments, such as steroids, combined with physical therapy remain the standard course of treatment despite merely delaying disease progression.

Depending on the needs of you, your child, and others in your family, other types of therapy may help, too. These may include: Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy: “Rehabilitation & Physical ...

The Muscular Dystrophy Association trusts the decision ... that change how the muscle cells “read” the mutated gene, physical therapy or surgery to correct spinal curvature, Hesterlee said.“ ...

While there is no cure for BMD, there are treatment options including occupational and physical therapy, foot and ankle braces, and wheelchairs. Children with Becker muscular dystrophy may start ...

Sarepta Therapeutics has followed through on its promise to file for accelerated approval of its gene therapy SRP-9001 for Duchenne muscular dystrophy ... measures of physical ability, although ...

Finally, their physical therapist recommended creatine kinase ... chief research officer of the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Elevidys works by delivering a shortened dystrophin gene, called ...

Sixty-four cases of muscular dystrophy were diagnosed according ... One boy who was also receiving physical therapy with androstenolone had marked increases in strength and vital capacity.

Italfarmaco’s oral HDAC inhibitor givinostat has been approved in the US as a treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD ... also saw a slower decline in physical function over 18 months ...

Amber Sapp, a St. Petersburg resident, is a physical therapist and mom to 18-year-old Garrett, who lives with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. [ Sapp family ] “You’re just an over-protective ...