Here is the skinny,\u00a0Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC) is a congenital neuromuscular disorder characterized by\u00a0muscle weakness and associated joint contractures. At birth, babies frequently have clubfeet and flexed\u00a0wrists but can also have contractures of any joints in the body. Muscle weakness is associated with a\u00a0defect in the anterior horn cell of the spinal cord. This area of the spinal cord can be considered the\u00a0power plant for the muscles. Since it supplies the electrical current from the spinal cord, to the motor\u00a0nerves which feed the muscles which they move. AMC has similar basis of anterior horn cell disease as\u00a0polio does and with aging, it has similar problems with over use issues that polio does.<\/p>\n
Little is published about Arthrogryposis and aging but of the few articles, it supports, as the person ages,\u00a0they become much more disabled.<\/p>\n
What we all know, who live with this, is that it hasn’t stopped any of us from doing what we wanted\u00a0and\u00a0how we wanted. From my perspective and possibly some of yours, I learned how to crawl, talk, walk, tie shoes, run, jump, ride a bike, think for myself, go to schools, drive, go to college, find a job I love, just like everyone else<\/strong>. The only difference, aside from the obvious, I can truly say, I figured it all out as I went, as I am certain many, if not everyone else has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here is the skinny,\u00a0Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC) is a congenital neuromuscular disorder characterized by\u00a0muscle weakness and associated joint contractures. At birth, babies frequently have clubfeet and flexed\u00a0wrists but can also have contractures of any joints in the body. Muscle weakness is associated with a\u00a0defect in the anterior horn cell of the spinal cord. This area … Continue reading What is Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC)?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[7,6],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amc","category-arthrogryposis","tag-amc","tag-arthrogryposis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nothinspecialtb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nothinspecialtb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nothinspecialtb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nothinspecialtb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nothinspecialtb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nothinspecialtb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/nothinspecialtb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nothinspecialtb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nothinspecialtb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nothinspecialtb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nothinspecialtb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}