Neuromuscular Disease

Section 1: Peripheral nerve, neuromuscular junction and motor neuron disorders.- A woman who could not wear high heels.- Rare as rocking horse droppings.- A lady with ataxia - an example of Hickam's Dictum.- A lady with tremor not due to Parkinson's disease.- A makeup artist with Crohn's disease.- Not a laughing matter.- Leg swelling and painful feet in a business man.- A man with back pain and weight loss.- A man with progressive weakness and muscle twitching.- A woman with burning hands.- Another case of unsteadiness.- A young man with blurred vision and foot drop.- Progressive motor weakness in a Somalian man.- A man with a pacemaker develops difficulty walking.- Cramps, weakness and fasciculations.- A lady with weakness since childhood.- A man with an insidious, painful mononeuropathy.- A lady with head drop.- The dangers of home preserved vegetables.- A man with a dry mouth and weakness.- A man with difficulty chewing gum and an ominous family history.- A patient with anacute syndrome, recovers and represents years later.- A man with recurrent chest infections.- A medical student with episodes of weakness and sensory disturbance.- Weakness in an Indian man.- A man with episodes of shoulder pain and a weak arm.- A man with painful feet and hand ulcers.- A psychologist with wrist drop.- Section 2: Muscle disorders.- Longstanding drooping eyelids.- Drooping eyelids PLUS.- Neither one nor the other.- When is myotonia not caused by myotonic dystrophy?.- Myotonia and paralysis-two syndromes, one diagnosis.- Typical phenotype, MRI and histology.- Atypical phenotype, MRI and histology.- A multisystem muscle disorder needs monitoring.- The less aggressive and less common cousin.- A common cause of progressive proximal weakness...- ... and the other common cause.- A treatable systemic muscle disease.- A blood vessel disease causing weakness.- Antibody-mediated muscle disease?.- When the wind comes back.- When the wind does not come back.- Paralysis is only a part of the problem.- "Back to the basics"-never forget to look at the back.- Is it time to take the heat out of the problem?.- Praying for an answer can be helpful.- Neuromuscular junction dysfunction is not always myasthenic.- Carrying shopping can be difficult, especially for men.