BMD
Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) is a condition which causes weakness in the muscles, affects mainly male children, like all muscular dystrophy diseases. It is a genetic condition and it is caused by a fault in a gene called dystrophin, those genetic faults are also the cause of the more severe form of muscle weakness called Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The difference is that in BMD the muscle weakness is less severe and the disease progression is slower compared to DMD.
BMD is less common than DMD. It affects 1 in 30.000 newborns. The symptoms usually start in childhood but some people don’t notice problems until adulthood. The symptoms can be mild initially, presenting with a delay in learning to walk, muscle cramps after exercise or generally struggling with sports. As time goes by, there may be muscle weakness which causes difficulty in everyday exercises like: running, climbing stairs or walking long distances. Some people with BMD may require a wheelchair, this is usually around age 40 to 50, if no actions were taken. However BMD is a very variable condition and in some patients the disease progression is much quicker than this. On the other hand, there are people with BMD who never lose the ability to walk and live into their 70s or 80s, if the right medication and physio theray were aligned together.
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Mission
Values
- Empathy: we can feel the suffering of muscular dystrophy community in Egypt.
- Leadership: we aim to be the reference and source of awareness for patients and their caregivers.
- Empowerment: we work hard to provide every MD patient with essential tools to live a powerful life.
Goals
- Expanding the association activities by extending arms across the whole country to make it easier for the patient to reach support wherever they are.
- To provide suitable employment opportunities that is not less than the minimum wage or appointment in accordance with the educational qualifications.
- Allocation of housing units within the provinces for those with special needs and the necessary amenities.
- Building a medical building on a global level to receive and treat cases of patients with muscular atrophy and the disabled.
- Work on the issuance and amendment of legislation for patients with muscular atrophy and disabled in accordance with the current circumstances.
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