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World Duchenne Awareness Day
  • What is Duchenne?
    • About Duchenne & Becker
    • A Brief History of Duchenne
    • Diagnosis & life expectancy
  • About the day
    • When is World Duchenne Awareness Day
    • Friends of WDAD
    • The WDAD story
  • What you can do
    • Download WDAD materials
    • Illuminate a landmark
    • Organize an Event or Conference
  • Themes
    • 2025: Family: the heart of care
    • 2024: Raise Your Voice for Duchenne
    • 2023: Duchenne – Breaking Barriers
    • 2022: Women & Duchenne
    • 2021: Adult Life & Duchenne
    • 2020: Duchenne and the Brain
    • 2019: Nutrition in DMD
    • 2018: Standards of Care
    • 2017: Duchenne Dreams
    • 2016: Early Diagnosis
    • 2015: Duchenne Stories
    • 2014: Faces of Duchenne
  • News
  • Contact

About the theme

This year’s theme for World Duchenne Awareness Day is ‘Nutrition in DMD’. This not only covers guidelines for maintaining a healthy weight for DMD boys and families, but also aims to spark inspiration, and to encourage research in this field.

Check out the themes of previous years:

2018: Standards of Care
2017: Duchenne Dreams
2016: Early Diagnosis
2015: Duchenne Stories
2014: Faces of Duchenne

Standards of Care videos

Categories

  • Adult Life & Duchenne
  • Duchenne and the Brain
  • Duchenne Dreams
  • Duchenne Stories
  • Duchenne: Breaking Barriers
  • Early Diagnosis
  • Family the heart of care
  • Many faces of Duchenne
  • News
  • Nutrition in DMD
  • Raise your Voice for Duchenne
  • Standards of Care
  • Women & Duchenne

Introduction to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

https://vimeo.com/133337162?loop=0

Interesting links

  • Adult Life & Duchenne
  • Duchenne and the Brain
  • Duchenne Dreams
  • Duchenne Stories
  • Duchenne: Breaking Barriers
  • Early Diagnosis
  • Family the heart of care
  • Many faces of Duchenne
  • News
  • Nutrition in DMD
  • Raise your Voice for Duchenne
  • Standards of Care
  • Women & Duchenne

Duchenne – A 360 documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o28-1rJAu8g