Common Symptoms Of Neuromuscular Diseases

Issues Swallowing

The most common neuromuscular disorders to cause problems with an individual's ability to swallow are inflammatory myopathy, myasthenia, peripheral neuropathy, dystrophies, mitochondrial myopathy, and motor neuron diseases. Neuromuscular diseases have adverse effects on how the nerves in the individual's body carry electrical impulses to the next nerve, a muscle, and the brain. Some individuals affected by problems swallowing due to a neuromuscular disease have problems with how the nerves operate the cricopharyngeal muscle. When the cricopharyngeal muscle is not able to relax, the food is not able to leave the individual's hypopharynx and make its way into their esophagus. If an individual's neuromuscular disorder disrupts the normal operation of any of the other fifty pairs of muscles used in the process of swallowing, the affected individual will have issues swallowing.

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