What disease are related to the skeletal or muscular system of the body?
Filed in Category Skeletal System Questions
Use an internet source to provide some information about a disease related to the skeletal or muscular system of the body.
Answer the following questions:
1. What is the disease and what effects does it have on a patient.
2. What is the prognosis?
3. What can be done to cure or treat symptoms of the disease? (example: medications, therapy, amputation–yikes!)
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Do an internet search. Try looking up Paget’s disease.
Check out DMD
1. Problem: defective gene resulting in abnormality of the muscle cell membrane scaffolding protein dystrophin. Result progressive muscle wasting and weakness…to the point of wheel chair confinement and eventually to the point where your respiratory muscles aren’t strong enough to breath
2. There’s no cure. Death by their 20’s
3. No meds. rehab therapy, light exercise to promote strength and stamina. Will need a wheel chair. May need surgeries to prevent permanent contraction of the tendons (contractures). May need ventilatory support
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000705.htm