FSHD University: Exercise & Physical Therapy for FSHD

19:00 CET | 18:00 GMT | 1:00 p.m. ET | 12:00 p.m. CT | 11:00 a.m. MT | 10:00 a.m. PT

Exercise and Physical Therapy for FSHD, with Ulrike Uta, MSc, MCSP.

Physiotherapist Ulrike Uta, of the Muscular Dystrophy Support Centre in Coventry, UK, has extensive experience helping individuals with FSHD. She notes that muscle weakness from FSHD can cause people to compensate by overworking other muscles. For example, as abdominal core muscles weaken, the shoulder and neck muscles can get overworked trying to hold up the body. “Tightness around the muscles, aches, pains, cramps, stiffness, heaviness, headaches, shortness of breath, all these issues are secondary to how our body is compensating,” she says. In this webinar she will address how to make muscles that are overworking to work less hard, and to get the those that are underworking to work as well as they can, all within the frame of FSHD.