Evaluation and Treatment of Myopathies

Approach to the patient with muscle disease: structure and function of normal muscle; evaluation of the patient with myopathy; genetic evaluation of the patient and family. The muscular dystrophies: the muscular dystrophies; inflammatory myopathies; congenital myopathies; periodic paralysis and myotonia; myopathies of systemic disease; general strategies of clinical management - muscle pain and fatigue; prevention and management of medical complications of myopathies.