Our condition-specific alert cards provide crucial information for emergency healthcare professionals treating patients with muscle wasting conditions. These wallet-sized cards outline essential recommendations and precautions, which are useful for those without specialist neuromuscular knowledge. Each card also includes space for your neuromuscular team’s contact details, ensuring quick access to expert advice.
Our cards are developed by a multi-disciplinary team of neuromuscular specialists to ensure clinical accuracy and up-to-date, reliable guidance. While the cards offer general guidance, individual symptoms may vary.
Available alert cards include:
- Becker muscular dystrophy
- Congenital muscular dystrophy
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Myotonic dystrophy type 1 & 2
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
- GNE myopathy
- Inclusion body myositis
- Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 1 & 2
- Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy
- Spinal muscular atrophy type 1, 2, & 3
- Undiagnosed muscle wasting condition
To order a physical copy of an alert card fill in our form or email info@musculardystrophyuk.org or call our helpline at 0800 652 6352. You can download PDF copies of some of our alert cards by clicking the link in the list above.