Guide To Spinal Muscular Atrophy Types And Treatment

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) affects an individual's strength and ability to move. This disease does it by targets their spine's motor cells. Currently, this condition affects one in every eleven thousand individuals. Additionally, approximately one in every fifty Americans is a genetic carrier. The effects this condition has on patients range. Patients can have an average life expectancy. However, they will lose their ability to walk unassisted (or at all). Other patients will eventually lose their ability to eat, speak, and breathe!