Neuromuscular Center
The largest clinic in the state that treats the smallest details of your care.
We've grown. Not only into the most specialized neuromuscular clinic in the state but into the largest. Headed by the area's two leading neuromuscular specialists Kevin Felice, D.O. and Charles Whitaker, M.D. - and an expert team of therapists and nurses, we offer ALS and MDA patients uncompromised care and accommodations all in a single location. A bigger facility. Individualized treatments. More personal, patient-specific care. One clinic.
The Neuromuscular Center was established in November 2007 with the goal and commitment of providing comprehensive and multidisciplinary care to all patients with chronic neuromuscular diseases in the state of Connecticut and bordering regions. The Center is certified by the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) for the care of both adults and children with chronic neuromuscular diseases, and by the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association (ALSA) for the care of adult patients with ALS and other motor neuron diseases. Members of the HSC multidisciplinary care team include specialists in neuromuscular neurology, neuromuscular nursing, social work, physical and occupational therapy, mobility and wheelchair technology, speech language pathology, medical nutritional therapy, and respiratory therapy. The Center also has a state-of-the-art EMG and Neurodiagnostics Lab, and has recently opened a new Neuromuscular Center Clinic. In early 2010, the Center will open the Research and Clinical Trials Unit to facilitate research in promising new therapies for ALS and other neuromuscular diseases.
Neuromuscular Disorders: The Neuromuscular Clinic at Hospital for Special Care (HSC) offers a wide variety of services to adult patients with neuromuscular disease.
The types of disorders seen in the Neuromuscular Clinic include:
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other motor neuron diseases (MND). What is ALS? Go to www.alsact.org and click on "About ALS".
- All neuromuscular disorders covered by the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) including muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, and Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathies. http://www.mda.org/disease/ has details of these disorders.
- General neuromuscular disorders such as myasthenia gravis, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, and multifocal motor neuropathy.
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