The neuromuscular medicine, and physiatry specialists are key health care providers who work cooperatively with a multidisciplinary team to provide coordinated care for persons with Neuromuscular diseases (NMDs). The director or coordinator of the team must be aware of the potential issues specific to NMDs and be able to access the interventions that are the foundations for proper care in NMD. These include health maintenance and proper monitoring of disease progression and complications to provide anticipatory, preventive care and optimum management. Ultimate goals include maximizing health and functional capacities, performing medical monitoring and surveillance to inhibit and prevent complications, and promoting access and full integration into the community in order to optimize quality of life.This issue of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America is intended to provide the reader with a comprehensive over-view of the diagnostic approach, clinical characteristics, and care and management of patients with neuromuscular disease (NMD), with emphasis on the most common hereditary and acquired neuromuscular disorders. Neuromuscular diseases (NMDs), a classification category that describes hereditary and acquired diseases of the peripheral neuromuscular system, includes those that affect anterior horn cells, peripheral nerves, neuromuscular junctions and muscle.
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