Without the healthy and strong muscles, affected patients experience problems with all actions that require the use of muscles, especially legs; they are not able to perform motor skills such as running or jumping easily. Also, they frequently fall due to the minimum amount of strength available in their legs, and actions like getting up from a lying position or ascending stairs is a difficult task for them. (Connolly, Florence, Cradock, 2013) Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy have a unique way of rising from the floor, called a Gower’s maneuver; they first get on their hands and feet and raise the upper body by “walking” their hands up the leg. Also, research show that affected individuals demonstrate substandard results in academic achievement scores compared to their siblings. Studies show that children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy have poorer verbal memory spans, self-control problems, and physical difficulties, as well. (Hinton, Vivo, and Fee,
Without the healthy and strong muscles, affected patients experience problems with all actions that require the use of muscles, especially legs; they are not able to perform motor skills such as running or jumping easily. Also, they frequently fall due to the minimum amount of strength available in their legs, and actions like getting up from a lying position or ascending stairs is a difficult task for them. (Connolly, Florence, Cradock, 2013) Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy have a unique way of rising from the floor, called a Gower’s maneuver; they first get on their hands and feet and raise the upper body by “walking” their hands up the leg. Also, research show that affected individuals demonstrate substandard results in academic achievement scores compared to their siblings. Studies show that children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy have poorer verbal memory spans, self-control problems, and physical difficulties, as well. (Hinton, Vivo, and Fee,