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Wayne Health’s highly trained Neuromuscular Medicine specialists treat neuromuscular disorders that affect the nerves controlling your voluntary muscles, sensation and autonomic functions. When your nerve cells become diseased, the messages they send to your muscles and other organs fail. That can lead to muscle weakness, cramps, tripping, pain, numbness, pins/needles sensation and difficulty with walking.
Wayne Health specialists, who are also faculty at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, are renowned experts in neuromuscular disorders with a depth and breadth of knowledge and training far beyond that of a general adult or pediatric neurologist. This specialized expertise includes clinical evaluation and management of disorders of the motor neuron, nerve roots, peripheral nerves, neuromuscular junction and muscle, affecting patients of all ages.
Patients come from across the nation and the world to our subspecialty clinics focused on Charcot-Marie-Tooth diseases and other inherited peripheral nervous disorders.
Peripheral neuropathies
Motor neuron diseases
Neuromuscular junction disorders
Muscle disorders and pathology
There is a wide array of Neuromuscular Disorders and Inherited Neuropathies. Some of the more common disorders are described below:
Each neuromuscular disorder has its own unique set of symptoms and individual patients may experience different symptoms. Symptoms that are frequently associated with neuromuscular disorders include:
Wayne Health specialists use the most advanced diagnostic procedures to accurately identify and diagnose neuromuscular disorders. These include:
Wayne Health providers treat a wide range of neuromuscular conditions with a variety of treatments. The type of treatment may vary greatly and depends upon your specific condition, the severity of your symptoms and your overall health. Our Neuromuscular team works with you to choose the treatments that best meet your individual needs.
Some treatments options at Wayne Health include medication therapies, immunomodulatory therapies (immunosuppressive drugs, plasmapheresis and IVIg) and physical therapy.
Our Charcot-Marie-Tooth Diseases Clinic (CMT) is dedicated specifically to patients with inherited peripheral nerve diseases, also called CMT. Our multidisciplinary team will coordinate your care needs and appointments on the same day of the visit to make it easy and convenient. The clinic has been recognized by the American CMT Association as a CMT Center of Excellence (CMTA Centers of Excellence). This clinic is a part of the Inherited Neuropathy Consortium (INC) and also supported by the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).
Wayne Health’s CMT Clinic is directed by Dr. Jun Li, professor and chair of Neurology at Wayne State University. Dr. Li is a renowned expert in CMT whose work is extensively published and whose laboratory is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the MDA.
Wayne Health physicians and researchers are also faculty at Wayne State University School of Medicine who conduct basic, translational and clinical research. This makes the latest treatments and clinical trials available to you sooner than other providers without a medical school affiliation.
Our physicians are actively involved in clinical and basic science research to improve scientific knowledge of neuromuscular disorders, to develop new treatments, and to improve the lives of people with neuromuscular disorders.
For more information, please visit the links below at the WSU School of Medicine.