Talk:Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
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Is there any sort of treatment available for this disease? If so, it should be listed.
≈There is complicated surgerys to reverse foot and joint deformities which I would say immensely increases the quality of life as I have personally seen the effects of the latter years of life if left untreated. Finding the Doc for it is the hard part.Mibo123 00:29, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] possible treatments
Currently, the only widely accepted treatment consists of AFO's(ankle/foot orthopedics), that can be large and clunky, and generally require the patient to purchase a pair of shoes that are at least one size larger than their feet, thus exacerbating some of the side-effects of the disorder. There are more modern AFO's that will fit into a patient's normal shoes, but they usually cost more than MDA or private insurance are willing to cover. Vu1kan (talk)080531.1437 (UTC)
Large doses of ascorbic acid are being investigated to manage it for patients who have CMT 1A. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15034573 http://www.charcot-marie-tooth.org/archives/cmt_headlines_story.php?id=49 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 124.168.134.119 (talk) 01:41, 14 May 2007 (UTC).
