Category: CMT

From the time 28-year-old Mason Hatch was very young, he knew he walked differently than other children. When he was in the sixth grade, he realized something about his feet was changing. “My feet showed the first signs of deformity at that time,” said Mason Hatch. “They also often felt cold, and because of uneven …

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Nearly 3 million people in the world, including 150,000 in the United States, have Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (CMT), a group of inherited disorders that damages the peripheral nerves that transmit information between the brain and the rest of the body. Also called hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, CMT can result in smaller, weaker muscles and causes …

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