SMA
SMA Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is an inherited neuromuscular condition that affects the nerve cells (motor neurons) in an area of the spinal cord called the anterior horn because the nerves are damaged, so the muscles don’t receive signals from the brain correctly and becomes wasted, or atrophied.
This muscle wasting can lead to problems with breathing as well as with movement (motor) activities such as crawling, sitting, walking, feeding and head control. Intelligence is not affected – indeed, many children with SMA appear to be particularly bright.
SMA is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, which means both the parents carry those genes and accordingly transfer them to their children. SMA varies a great deal in severity – sometimes it is clear almost immediately after birth that something is wrong, while in other cases symptoms don’t become obvious until the teenage years. Because of this, it is traditionally separated into different “types” corresponding to different levels of severity and classified according to motor milestones reached. Broadly speaking, individuals with Type I never sit, those with Type II never walk, those with Type III walk but may lose the ability later on in life and those with type IV usually experience mild to moderate muscle weakness, tremors, and mild breathing problems.
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Vision
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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