Presents practical, real-life

case scenarios in an engaging, practical format

Provides an accessible,

clinical guide to neuromuscular disorders

Written by authors from
one of the world's leading centres for neuromuscular disease

Section 1: Peripheral nerve, neuromuscular junction and motor
neuron disorders.- A woman who could
not wear high heels.- Rare as rocking horse droppings...- A lady with ataxia - an
example of Hickam's Dictum.- A lady with tremor not due to Parkinson's
disease.- A makeup artist with Crohn's disease.- Not a laughing matter.- Leg
swelling and painful feet in a business man.- A man with back pain and weight
loss.- A man with progressive weakness and muscle twitching.- A woman with
burning hands.- Another case of unsteadiness.- A young man with blurred vision
and foot drop.- Progressive motor weakness in a Somalian man.- A man with a
pacemaker develops difficulty walking.- Cramps, weakness and fasciculations.- A
lady with weakness since childhood.- A man with an insidious, painful
mononeuropathy.- A lady with head drop.- The dangers of home preserved
vegetables.- A man with a dry mouth and weakness.- A man with difficulty
chewing gum and an ominous family history.- A patient with anacute syndrome,
recovers and represents years later.- A man with recurrent chest infections.- A
medical student with episodes of weakness and sensory disturbance.- Weakness in
an Indian man.- A man with episodes of shoulder pain and a weak arm.- A man
with painful feet and hand ulcers.- A psychologist with wrist drop.- Section 2: Muscle disorders.- Longstanding
drooping eyelids.- Drooping eyelids PLUS.- Neither one nor the other.- When is
myotonia not caused by myotonic dystrophy?.- Myotonia and paralysis-two
syndromes, one diagnosis.- Typical phenotype, MRI and histology.- Atypical
phenotype, MRI and histology.- A multisystem muscle disorder needs
monitoring.- The less aggressive and less common cousin.- A common cause of
progressive proximal weakness...- ... and the other common cause.- A
treatable systemic muscle disease.- A blood vessel disease causing weakness.-
Antibody-mediated muscle disease?.- When the wind comes back.- When the wind
does not come back.- Paralysis is only a part of the problem.- "Back to the
basics"-never forget to look at the back.- Is it time to take the heat out of
the problem?.- Praying for an answer can be helpful.- Neuromuscular junction
dysfunction is not always myasthenic.- Carrying shopping can be difficult,
especially for men.