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Children’s of Albama – Muscular Dystrophy Care Center
1600 7th Avenue SouthMcWane Building, Clinic 6
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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The Muscular Dystrophy Clinic at Children’s of Alabama offers a multidisciplinary team approach in the diagnosis, treatment and continuing care of children with neuromuscular diseases. Supported in part by the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), we provide comprehensive medical care to a variety of neuromuscular illnesses.
Conditions Treated:
Each year, we care for more than 200 patients from around the southeast with a wide range of neuromuscular disorders including:
• Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD)
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT)
• Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)
• Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)
• Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy
• Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD)
• Friedrich’s Ataxia
• Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy
• Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy
• Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
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