Symptoms of muscular dystrophy

-    Progressive wasting of muscles followed by loss of body function and weakness
-    In the case of Duchenne's MD, delay in the development of coordination as well as elementary muscle skill in children. Commonly found symptoms consist of poor balance and the attendant tendency to frequent falls, walking with a waddling gait, calf pain as well as restricted range of one’s movement
-    Joint contractures
-    Obesity
-    Drooping eyelids, frontal baldness, gonadal atrophy, mental impairment accompanied by myotonic dystrophy and cataract