Muscle, Bone, and Joint Disorders

Article discusses actor Josh Ryan Evans and achondroplasia, including the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of the disorder.

If this growth hormone disorder begins in puberty, it causes gigantism (the wrestler Andre the Giant was affected by it). Most often it begins in middle age due to a tumor of the pituitary gland and causes abnormal growth of the hands and face.

Information about Apert syndrome, its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

Information about arthrogryposis, its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

Information from the Foundation for Ichthyosis & Related Skin Types (FIRST), with illustrations.

Good information on compartment syndrome. Site also offers a podiatrist locator.

Information about Crouzon syndrome, its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

Article describes Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, its diagnosis, and treatment.

Information about Ellis van Creveld syndrome, its diagnosis, and treatment.

Information about eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS) and eosinophilic fasciitis (EF), their symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments.

Information about fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, its possible treatments, and research.

Article on the connections between Goldenhar syndrome and Gulf War veterans.

Article describes growth hormone deficiency, its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment, and how it relates to the individuals who portrayed Munchkins in "The Wizard of Oz."

Article describes Jeune syndrome (asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy), its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

Information from the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (U.S.).

Article describes Legg-Calve-Perthes disease, its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

Information about Marfan syndrome, a connective tissue disorder, including symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

Article describes Moebius syndrome, its symptoms, and treatment.

Article describes osteogenesis imperfecta, its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

Article describes osteopetrosis, its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments.

Information about Poland syndrome, its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

Article looks at the medical findings in the case of John Merrick, the Elephant Man, and describes Proteus syndrome.

Article describes the types of primary periodic paralyses, their symptoms, diagnoses, and treatment.

Article describes Schwartz-Jampel syndrome, its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

Information about SMA (spinal muscular atrophy), including the types, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

Information on spinal bulbar muscular atrophy, also known as Kennedy's disease and X-Linked SBMA, from the Muscular Dystrophy Association USA.

Site offers mailing list, chat, message board, photos, research news, and resources.

Article describes van der Woude syndrome, its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

Article describes Winchester syndrome, its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.