There are over 40 different types of neuromuscular conditions, and an accurate diagnosis is critical. Oishei Children's Hospital physicians use numerous evaluations to correctly diagnosis patients, such as conducting a thorough medical history and clinical evaluation, electrodiagnostic studies, blood samples, genetic studies, and possibly a muscle or nerve biopsy.
Neuromuscular diseases can be grouped into the following categories:
- Muscular dystrophies
- Motor neuron diseases
- Inflammatory myopathies
- Congenital myopathies
- Neuromuscular junction diseases
- Peripheral nerve disease
- Multisystem myopathies including mitochondrial myopathies
- Other myopathies
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