The Academic Medical Center (AMC) Amsterdam, The Netherlands, recently opened a center for children with neuromuscular diseases. Neuromuscular diseases is the generic term for a broad set of disorders which impair the functioning of the muscles via muscle or nerve pathology. Most of the diseases are progressive in time, sometimes leading to an early death of the patient. Most neuromuscular diseases have no cure, so the goal of the treatment is to reduce symptoms, and increase both mobility and life expectancy. Children with neuromuscular diseases typically need care from various physicians and therapists. To drastically reduce the required number of hospital visits, and to improve the coordination of care, the AMC decided to cluster the expertise of these care providers each several weeks in the `Children's Muscle Center Amsterdam' (CMCA).
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