Newly Formed Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy Consortium Aims to Consolidate More than 13 Patient Registries in Effort to Accelerate Research on Rare Disease BOSTON – (February 22, 2017) – Today the… Read More »
Consensus Reached to Move Forward with Formation of International Global FSHD Patient Registry
Ask the Physical Therapist: Inversion tables, trigger points, and chronic pain management
The following is a transcript of a question-and-answer session, conducted over the FSH Society’s Facebook page, with Julie Hershberg, PT, DPT, NCS. Hershberg is a physical therapist who is a… Read More »
Promising FSHD mouse model from Harper lab
Video caption: These mice are siblings and genetically identical. In the one on the right, we turned DUX4 “on”, while in the one on the left, the DUX4 gene remained… Read More »
A tunable FSHD-like DUX4 mouse model
by Peter Jones, PhD, and Takako Jones, PhD, University of Nevada, Reno The aberrant expression of the DUX4 primate retrotransposon is the key mediator of all forms of FSHD. Thus,… Read More »
Ask the Physical Therapist: Car Accidents and FSHD
The following is a transcript of a question-and-answer session, conducted over the FSH Society’s Facebook page, with Julie Hershberg, PT, DPT, NCS. Hershberg is a physical therapist who is a… Read More »