Today’s information comes to us from the NIH U.S. National Library of Medicine Genetics Home Reference. Myotonia congenita is a disorder that affects muscles used for movement. Beginning in childhood ...

Gamstorp specifically excluded clinical myotonia from her syndrome: "The typical inability to relax after a muscle contraction in myotonia congenita is not seen during or between attacks of adynamia ...

Myotonia is a rare condition in which the muscles are unable to relax after they contract. This can affect muscles throughout the body and is caused by changes in the genetics of the individual, ...

EMG demonstrated profuse true myotonic discharges in every muscle that was tested, with normal motor unit potential morphology and normal conduction velocity. The initial misdiagnosis of ALS resulted ...

Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators are reporting success with a novel gene therapy approach. Working with cells grown in the laboratory, the group is the first to repair a defective ...

IN 1909, Steinert described a familial, chronic, slowly progressive disease characterized by visual and glandular disturbances combined with muscular atrophy. This has been called myotonia atrophica, ...

Myotonia congenita is an inherited neuromuscular disorder. The characteristic of the disorder is the inability of muscles to quickly relax after a voluntary contraction. The condition is present since ...

A condition in which the muscles used for movement are affected is known as myotonia congenital. During childhood, bouts of sustained muscle tensing are experienced that make the relaxation of muscles ...