Duchenne
muscular dystrophy
This
disorder is inherited and starts from the legs and then it affects other parts of the body. Symptoms appear mainly in boys from 1 to
6 years old. There are many complications, expecially bone ones,
cardiomyopathy, respiratory disorders, muscle ones, so they often have to
use a wheelchair. There isn’t a cure for this disease.
Cerebral
Palsy
It
is a group of chronic disorders of nerves that control muscles. The
cerebral palsy appears in the first years of life and is caused by
incorrect development or a damage in the brain.
Symptoms are:
- difficulty walking;
- difficulty with fine motor tasks;
- involuntary movements, that’s why the muscles are often rigid.
There
isn’t a cure for this type of disease.
Mental
retardation
People
affected by mental retardation have got problems with learning
ability, adaptive behaviour, their language and their relationships
with others. This condition manifests itself before the age of 18
and the causes are prenatal, perinatal or postnatal, but sometimes
they are unknown. The types of mental retardation are classified in
this way:
- intermittent;
- limited;
- extensive;
- pervasive.
There
isn’t a cure for mental retardation, but there are a lot of
therapies.
Epilepsy
It’s
a brain disorder, and it appears when the brain sends abnormal
signals. There are many causes of epilepsy - like genetic conditions,
tumors, brain trauma - but it is not always possible to identify the
real motivation. This disease isn’t contagious and it doesn’t cause
mental retardation. There are two types of seizures: generalised and
partial.
There
are three types of treatment methods for this disorder: medical,
surgical, dietary.
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