Working ok with CMT?

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The issue of whether excessive work may lead to increased weakness in hereditary neuropathy is a vexing one and critical for patient management.  in this issue of JNNP this notion has been categorcially dismissed.  There was no worsening weakness with overwork in a  large CMT1A cohort.

 

Read more:   http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/85/12/1354.abstract

Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2014;85:1354-1358 doi:10.1136/jnnp-2014-307598
  • Neuromuscular
  • Research paper

Is overwork weakness relevant in Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease?

  1. G Piscosquito1,
  2. M M Reilly2,
  3. A Schenone3,
  4. G M Fabrizi4,
  5. T Cavallaro4,
  6. L Santoro5,
  7. G Vita6,
  8. A Quattrone7,
  9. L Padua8,
  10. F Gemignani9,
  11. F Visioli10,11,
  12. M Laurà2,
  13. D Calabrese1,
  14. R A C Hughes2,
  15. D Radice12,
  16. A Solari1,
  17. D Pareyson1
  18. for the CMT-TRIAAL & CMT-TRAUK Group

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