One of the first symptoms of LGMD is typically a weakening of the muscles in the hip and shoulder girdles. The hip girdle is a ring-like bone structure in the pelvic area, consisting of the pelvis, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Survey data provided insight into the symptomatic burden of limb girdle muscular dystrophy, according to study ...

Scientists say they know which isoform of a key protein is most likely to lead to a rare type of muscular dystrophy. Investigators have uncovered a mechanism that appears to trigger a rare form of ...

1 Department of Physical Education, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea (Republic of) 2 Frontier Research Institute of Convergence Sports Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea (Republic of) ...

It's not easy to distinguish between the dozens of subtypes of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy - a rare, genetic muscle disease characterized by weakness in the hips and shoulders that causes ...

Extremity reconstruction surgery can be life-changing for people whose hands, arms or legs have been affected by cancer, an infection, a traumatic injury, congenital (birth) defect, or other ...

A waddling gait happens because of weakness in your hip girdle and upper thigh muscles. To make up for the weakness, you sway from side to side and your hip drops with each step. It’s also called ...

A review of instruments used to assess upper-limb function in patients with neuromuscular diseases found that more tools are needed to address specific diseases. In most neuromuscular diseases (NMDs), ...