Cardiac Medication May Help Reduce Stiffness Caused by Certain Muscle Diseases
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - 15:42
in Health & Medicine
Preliminary research finds that for patients with nondystrophic myotonias (NDMs), rare diseases that affect the skeletal muscle and cause functionally limiting stiffness and pain, use of the anti-arrhythmic medication mexiletine resulted in improvement in patient-reported stiffness.