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MDA IS HERE TO HELP YOU
The Muscular Dystrophy Association offers a vast array of services to help you and your family deal with metabolic diseases of muscle. The staff at your local MDA office is there to assist you in many ways. The Association's services include:
- a nationwide network of 225 hospital-affiliated clinics staffed by top neuromuscular disease specialists
- week-long MDA summer camps for children
- professionally facilitated support groups for those affected, spouses, parents or other caregivers
- assistance with purchase and repair of wheelchairs and leg braces
- evaluations for physical, occupational and respiratory therapy
- flu shots
- information about other community resources
- equipment loan closets
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MDA's public health education program helps you stay abreast of research news, medical findings and disability information, through speakers, seminars, videos, newsletters and more. Ask your local office for some of MDA's latest brochures, including "Services for the Individual, Family and Community." Many are available in Spanish.
Everyone registered with MDA also receives Quest, MDA's award-winning national magazine. Quest publishes detailed articles about research findings; medical and day-to-day care; products and devices to help you or your child cope with your disorder; issues related to living with a disability; and much more.
MDA's Website, www.mda.org, contains more than 1,000 pages of information, including the texts of Quest articles and other MDA publications.
To call your local MDA office, look in your telephone directory under Muscular Dystrophy Association, or use the locator on this Web site.
You may also wish to contact MDA's national headquarters at 3300 East Sunrise Drive, Tucson, AZ 85718. Or, you can call the national office at (800) 572-1717.
Facts About Metabolic Diseases of Muscle
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