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When you register as a client, you gain access to essential support, information, and guidance to help enhance your quality of life.
If you’re dealing with a new diagnosis, searching for resources, or looking for a community that gets what you’re going through, we’re here to help.
Why register?
By becoming a registered client, you’ll access:
- Personalized support: Our team is here to guide you every step of the way.
- Access to our equipment program: Get help covering the costs of assistive devices and mobility equipment.
- Referrals to financial assistance: We can direct you to programs available in your area.
- Education and resources: Stay informed with the latest research, clinical trials, and best practices.
- A community of people who understand: Join a powerful network working to break down barriers and connect over lived experience.
Who can register?
You’re eligible to register if you:
- Have a likely or confirmed professional diagnosis of a neuromuscular disorder that we support.
- Are a Canadian citizen, landed immigrant, or refugee residing in Canada.
Neuromuscular disorders we support*
The list below includes many of the neuromuscular disorders we support, but it’s not exhaustive. With hundreds of rare conditions out there, some may not appear here by name. If you don’t see your specific diagnosis listed, we encourage you to reach out at research@muscle.ca. We’d be happy to explore how we can support you.
Muscular dystrophies
Congenital muscular dystrophies (CMDs) of all types, including:
- Congenital muscular dystrophy and collagenopathies
including Collagen VI and XII related dystrophies, Bethlem, Ullrich CMD - Congenital muscular dystrophy, dystroglycanopathies
including all subtypes of Fukuyama, Muscle-eye-brain disease, Walker-Warburg syndromes, Congenital muscular dystrophy with hypoglycosylation of dystroglycan, including related to B4GAT1, CRPPA, DPM2, DAG1, FKTN, FKRP, GMPPB, LARGE1, POMT1, POMT2, POMGNT1, POMGNT2 - Congenital muscular dystrophy, laminopathies (CMD related to LMNA)
- Congenital muscular dystrophy, merosinopathies (CMD related to LAMA2
- SELENON/SEPN1 related CMD (Rigid spine syndrome)
- Other CMDs including but not limited to ACTA1, CHKB, DNM2, ITGA7, RYR1, SYNE1, TCAP related CMD and CMD without genetic diagnosis
Progressive muscular dystrophies, including:
- Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD)
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)
- Dystrophinopathies, other
including X-linked Cardiomyopathy, Dilated cardiomyopathy 3B (Manifesting Female) - Emery Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and all subtypes of EDMD
- Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
FSHD1 related to D4Z4, FSHD2 related to SMCHD1 - Limb girdle muscular dystrophy
All subtypes including but not limited to ANO5, CAPN3, DNAJB6, DYS (Miyoshi myopathy), FKR, GMPPB, SGCA/D/G, TTN-related LGMD - Myotonic dystrophy
All subtypes including DM1 Steinert disease (congenital, childhood, juvenile and adult onset DM1), DM2 proximal myotonic myopathy, Ricker syndrome - Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD)
Myopathies
Congenital myopathies of all types, including:
- Cap myopathies
- Central core disease
- Centronuclear myopathies
including recessive, dominant, and X-linked (Myotubular Myopathy) subtypes - Congenital fiber type disproportion myopathy
- Minicore myopathy or Multiminicore myopathy (RYR1)
- Nemaline myopathy
- Tubular aggregate myopathies
Distal myopathies of all types, including:
- Udd myopathy (also known as tibial myopathy)
- Nonaka myopathy (also known as inclusion body myopathy (inherited) or GNE myopathy)
- Laing distal myopathy (also known as distal myopathy type 1)
- Welander myopathy
Immune-mediated myopathies/Myositis
- Dermatomyositis
- Immune-mediated necrotizing myositis
- Sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM)
- Polymyositis
- Vasculitis related myopathies
Metabolic myopathies
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase II deficiency (CP2 related)
- Glycogen storage disease type II (Pompe disease or acid maltase deficiency)
- Glycogen storage disease III (Forbe disease or Glycogen Debrancher Deficiency)
- Glycogen storage disease IV (Andersen disease or Glycogen branching enzyme deficiency)
- Glycogen storage disease V (McArdle disease or myophosphorylase deficiency)
- Glycogen storage disease VII (Phosphofructokinase deficiency or Tarui disease)
- Glycogen storage disease 1Xd (Glycogen storage disease due to muscle phosphorylase kinase deficiency)
- Glycogen storage disease XII (Aldolase deficiency)
- Glycogen storage disease XIV (Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 1T; or Phosphoglucomutase 1 deficiency)
- Glycogen storage disease of heart, lethal congenital
- Myoadenylate deaminase deficiency
Mitochondrial disorders with primary myopathy
Muscular ion channel disorders
- Brody myopathy
- Genetic periodic paralysis, including:
- Andersen-Tawil syndrome
- Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (sodium, potassium, calcium channels related)
- Hypokalemic periodic paralysis, also known as Gamstorp disease (sodium, potassium, calcium channels related)
- Myotonia congenita Thompsen and Becker disease
- Neuromyotonia Isaac syndrome
- Schwartz-Jampel Syndrome Chondrodystrophic Myotonia
- Paramyotonia congenita
- Potassium aggravated myotonia
Other myopathies
- Myofibrillar myopathies, including desminopathy
- Reducing body myopathy
- Hereditary distal arthrogryposis multiplex congenita
- Rippling muscle disease
- Vacuolar aggregate myopathy
Myasthenic Conditions / Neuromuscular junction disorders
Genetic disorders of the neuromuscular junction
- Congenital myasthenic syndromes
All subtypes including slow and fast channel syndromes, acetylcholine receptor deficiency
Immune-mediated disorders of the neuromuscular junction
- Myasthenia gravis
- Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndromes
Motor and/or sensory nerve disorders
Genetic peripheral neuropathies
- Amyloid peripheral neuropathy (AL and AA amyloidosis)
- Andermann syndrome/Agenesis of the corpus callosum with peripheral neuropathy (SLC12A6 related), also known as Charlevoix disease
- Ataxia with vitamin E deficiency (Friedreich-like ataxia)
- Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS)
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy/Hereditary Motor and sensory Neuropathy
All subtypes of CMT including but not limited to Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP), Congenital hypomyelinating neuropathy (HMSN), axonal & demyelinating HMSN and disorders historical known as peroneal neuropathy, Dejerine-Sottas disease - Friedreich ataxia
- Giant axonal neuropathy (GAN)
- Hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy (HNA)
SEPT9 related - Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy (HSAN)
all subtypes HSAN I-VIII including congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), Familial dysautonomia (Riley-Day syndrome) - Tangier disease (Alphalipoproteinem)
Immune-mediated peripheral neuropathies
- Antibody mediated paraneoplastic neuropathy
- Critical illness polyneuropathy and/or myopathy
- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP)
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
including acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (AIDP), Multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) with conduction block - Neuropathy due to monoclonal gammopathy
Axonal polyneuropathy and polyradiculonearopathy polyradiculoneuropathy associated with IgG/IgM/IgA monoclonal gammopathy - Parsonage-Turner syndrome
Brachial neuritis, Neuralgic amyotrophy - Mitochondrial disorders with primary peripheral neuropathy
Lower Motor Neuron Disorders
Genetic lower motor neuron disorders:
- Distal hereditary motor neuropathy/spinal muscular atrophy, dominant (dHMN/dSMA)
including dHMN1,2,5,7 - Distal hereditary motor neuropathy/spinal muscular atrophy, recessive (dHMN/dSMA)
including dSMA1 (SMARD1/ dHMN6,) dSMA2-5 - Distal hereditary motor neuropathy/spinal muscular atrophy, X-linked
including SMARD2, SMAX2 (X-linked distal arthrogryposis multiplex congenita), SMAX3 - Proximal spinal muscular atrophy, dominant
including SMALED (BICD2, DYNC1H1), SMAFK - Proximal spinal muscular atrophy, recessive all subtypes related to SMN1, SMA5q
- Spinobulbar muscular atrophy, X-linked
SBMA, Kennedy disease, SMAX1
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*Health conditions that do not fall under the umbrella of disorders we support include acquired traumatic conditions due to birth related injury and/or motor vehicle or other accidents (i.e. brachial plexopathy, spinal cord injuries); transient, toxic diseases (i.e., Lyme disease, Rhabdomyolysis, steroid induced conditions); acquired conditions secondary to non-neuromuscular disorder or its treatment (i.e. diabetic polyneuropathy, peripheral due to chemotherapy/cancer, sarcopenia); brain/spine (“central nervous system”) predominant diseases (i.e., Multiple sclerosis, Huntington, Leukodystrophy, Ataxias with primary CNS involvement; and, upper motor neuron disorders (ie Amyotrophic/Primary lateral sclerosis).