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Who Discovered Muscular Dystrophy ?

Muscular dystrophy is a condition that affects the muscles in the body. It is a degenerative disease that consistently weakens the muscles in a person. The condition may occur early in childhood or also may develop in adulthood. Muscular dystrophy is mainly caused by a defect in the gene structure and is a hereditary disease.

Even if the parents do not have the disease, they could be the carriers of the defective gene and can pass it on to their children. There are more than thirty genes that can cause muscular dystrophy. Absence of certain proteins that are connected to this gene causes the dystrophy.

Since there are several types of muscular dystrophy it is very difficult to identify who discovered the disease. After a lot of research the awareness to the disease started increasing in 1966. People became more aware that there is a disease called muscular dystrophy which causes a person to become extremely weak and also there is no cure for this particular disease.

One of the first muscular dystrophies to be identified is the Duchenne’s dystrophy which is mainly seen in children. It can affect children from the newborn age to 6 or 8 years. Children who have this condition face severe developmental problems. After a lot of research many more types of dystrophies were found and also some of them affected a specific group of muscles only. The name of the dystrophic was credited to people who identified the gene causing it through their research.

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