Clarification! on MDA and CMT

[Guest guest]

Just to clarify what was recently posted, CMT is NOT a 'form'

or 'type' of Muscular Dystropy! The Muscular Dystropy Association

sees patients with 40 or so neuromuscular diseases and CMT is one

of them. So, yes the MDA does see CMT patients, but CMT is not

any type of dystrophy!

" Dystrophy " (which is in MD) and " Atropy " (which is in CMT) are

different. Somewhere in our archives we have the differentiation

spelled out clearly. Basically in dystropy, the muscles are not

healthy to start out with; but in CMT the muscles start healthy,

then atrophy comes as the disease progresses.

~Gretchen