Muscular dystrophies refer to a broad group of conditions that result in increasing weakening and breakdown of skeletal musculature over time.
These include
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy (considered most common)
- Becker muscular dystrophy
- facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
- congenital muscular dystrophies (CMD)
- Emery-Dreiffus muscular dystrophy
- limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD)
- distal muscular dystrophy
- myotonic muscular dystrophy
- oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy
