TABLE 2

Classification of neuromuscular disease

Slowly progressiveNerve:

  • • Spinal muscular atrophy

  • • Post-polio syndrome

  • • Guillain–Barré syndrome

Neuromuscular junction:

  • • Myasthenia gravis

Muscle:

  • • Duchenne muscular dystrophy

  • • Becker muscular dystrophy

  • • Myotonic dystrophy

  • • Mitochondrial myopathies

  • • Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease

Rapidly progressive

  • • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis