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Your financial contribution will provide support services, social and recreation programs and essential research facilitated by MD associations around Australia. We rely on private and corporate donations to fund our many programs.

Thank you for your generosity!

Fun ways to raise funds

Organising your own fundraising activity is a great way to get active and social in support of people with Muscular Dystrophy, whilst raising funds and awareness for our cause. Follow the link for more ideas.

Fact Sheets

For in-depth information on a range of neuromuscular disorders, please download one of the “fact sheets” listed below.

MDNSW adapted the fact sheets from material originally prepared by MDA USA with the latter’s kind permission. MDF Australia is grateful to both MDNSW and MDA USA for providing this valuable and informative material.

The fact sheets can be read using Adobe Reader, available at www.adobe.com.


Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (CMT)

  • also known as Hereditary & Motor Sensory Neuropathy (HMSN)
  • and also as Peroneal Muscular Atrophy

  • Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophies (DMD & BMD)


    Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD)


    Friedreich’s Ataxia (FA)


    Genetics and Neuromuscular Diseases

  • What is a genetic disorder?
  • How can genetic testing and counselling help?
  • How are genetic disorders inherited?
  • What are the patterns of inheritance for neuromuscular diseases?
  • What is ‘mitochondrial inheritance’?

  • Inflammatory Myopathies

  • Dermatomyositis (DM)
  • Polymyositis (PM)
  • Inclusion-Body Myositis (IBM)

  • Later Onset Muscular Dystrophies

  • Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy
  • Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy
  • Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy
  • Ophthalmoplegic Muscular Dystrophy
  • Distal Muscular Dystrophy

  • Motor Neurone Disease

  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
  • Progressive Muscular Atrophy
  • Progressive Bulbar Palsy

  • Myasthenia Gravis

  • Myasthenia Gravis (MG)
  • Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LES)
  • Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome (CMS)

  • Myopathies

  • Myotonia Congenita (Thomsen’s disease and Becker type)
  • Paramyotonia Congenita (Eulenberg’s disease)
  • Periodic Paralysis (hyperkalaemic, hypokalaemic, normokalemic)
  • Central Core Disease
  • Nemaline Myopathy (Rod Body Disease)
  • Myotubular Myopathy (Centronuclear Myopathy)

  • Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy (MMD)

  • Type 1 MMD (MMD1)
  • Type 2 MMD (MMD2)
  • Adult-Onset MMD
  • Congenital MMD

  • Rare Muscular Dystrophies

  • Congenital Muscular Dystrophy (CMD)
  • Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy (EDMD)
  • Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophies (OPMD)

  • Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)

  • SMN-Related SMA
  • Non-SMN SMA
  • Spinal-Bulbar Muscular Atrophy


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