Treatment and Research
- No Food and Drug Administration approved therapies exist specifically for FSHD.
- Physiotherapy could improve patients' functional status by providing therapeutic exercise and ADL training.
- Occupational therapy can sometimes be used to help cope with new devices to make things easier.
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