FREQUENTLY COVERED DISEASES

If a child has a neurologic and degenerative disease not listed, we encourage you to complete an application and submit for our consideration.
* Lori's Voice may assist with accessible vans in every Michigan county.
Lori's Voice will cover 2 vans in a lifetime and only one every 5 years.
                                                                    


 

Muscular Dystrophy Types Affecting Children:
Becker
Congenital
Duchenne
Distal
Emery-Dreifuss
Facioscapulohumeral
Myotonic (subset of congenital)
Limb-Girdle
 
Multiple Sclerosis Types:
Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
Secondary-Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
Progressive-Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis
Primary-Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
 
Spinal muscular atrophies:
Infantile progressive spinal muscular atrophy
Intermediate spinal muscular atrophy
Juvenile spinal muscular atrophy
Bethlem Myopathy
 
Inflammatory myopathies:
Dermatomyositis
Inclusion body myositis
Polymyositis
 
Diseases of peripheral nerve:
Charcot-Marie tooth disease
Dejerine-Sottas disease
Friedreich's ataxia

​Diseases of the neuromuscular junction:
Botulism
Lambert-Eaton syndrome
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Metabolic disease of the muscle:
Acid maltase deficiency
Carnitine deficiency
Central core disease
Hyperthyroid myopathy
Hypothyroid Myopathy
Lactate dehydrogenase deficiency
Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes (CMS)
Myophosphorylase Deficiency
(There are many metabolic diseases of the muscle too numerous to list)
 
Less common myopathies:
Mitochondrial myopathy
Myoadenylate deaminase deficiency
Myotonia congenita
Myotubular myopathy
Nemaline myopathy
Paramyotonia congenita
Periodic paralysis-hypokalemic-hyperkalemic
Peripheral neuropathy
Phosphofructokinase deficiency
Phosphoglycerate kinase deficiency
Phosphorylase deficiency
Poliomyelitis
Polyneuropathy
Radiculopathy
Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy
Spinal muscular atrophy
Spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress type 1
Stiff person syndrome
Troyer syndrome
Juvenile Myasthenia gravis (JMG)
Acute Flaccid Myelitis
Demyelinating Diseases that result in impaired muscular control
 
Cerebral Palsy Types:
Ataxic
Dyskinetic
Spastic

​Other:
​Spina bifida

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