Muscle Diseases
What are Muscle Diseases?
Neuromuscular diseases, or muscle disorders, affect the function of muscles due to problems with the nerves and muscles in your body. The most common symptom of these diseases is muscle weakness. Other symptoms can evolve to pain or even paralysis.
Conditions and Symptoms of Muscle Diseases
· Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
· Botulism
· Congenital myasthenic syndromes
· Congenital myopathies
· Cramp-fasciculation syndrome
· Elevated creatine kinase
· Fasciculations
· Inclusion-body myositis
· Lambert-Eaton syndrome
· Mitochondrial myopathy
· Motor neuron disease
· Muscle disorders
· Muscular dystrophy
· Myasthenia gravis
· Myotonic dystrophy
· Neuromuscular junction disorders
· Neuromyotonia (Isaacs syndrome)
· Peripheral neuropathy
· Polymyositis
Muscle Diseases Treatment at NEUROMED
Our neurologists provide comprehensive evaluation of these diseases, including electrodiagnostic studies and other tests.
Our Team
Dr. Rasha El sherif
- researcher at the National Center for Neuroscience, Japan, where she specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of muscle atrophy.
- Between Egypt and Japan, she works to provide the best way to diagnose muscular dystrophy and the latest methods of treatment and advanced medical care in the field of muscular dystrophy.
- Member of the International Muscle Diseases Association and Chairman of the Scientific Publishing Committee of the International Muscle Diseases Society.
- Founder of the Egyptian Register of Muscle Diseases since 2012