Spinal fixation and fusion In terms of the management of<unk>  the American Academy of Neurology recommends that the individuals need to have monitoring of cardiac function, respiratory, and gastrointestinal. Additionally it is believed that therapy in speech, orthopedic and physical areas, would improve the person's quality of life. While there is currently no cure available, it is important to preserve muscle activity and any available correction of skeletal abnormalities (as scoliosis). Orthopedic procedures, like spinal fusion, maintains/increases the individual's prospect for more physical movement.
Congenital muscular dystrophy
Spinal muscular atrophy
Congenital myopathy
Congenital distal spinal muscular atrophy
Chondrodystrophy
Spinal muscular atrophies
Muscular dystrophy
Infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy