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Spinal Muscular Atrophy" SMA" in 1980, the early nineties of the nineteenth century. Both the Austrian doctor "Guido Warding" and the German doctor "John Hoffmann" revealed a disorder that leads to a gradual weakness in muscles that begins in childhood and leads to early death through " Warding- Hoffman syndrome" and was later known as Spinal Muscular Atrophy "SMA" As a result of the loss of motor neurons, then the brain stops sending messages that control muscle movement. This disease usually affects infants and children, and then the child’s muscles weaken and contract, which leads to difficulty in moving the head, sitting without support, and walking as well, and he may have difficulty swallowing and breathing with the exacerbation of the disease It is a condition that worsens over time.  Symptoms of spinal muscular atrophy The severity of the symptoms and the beginning of their first appearance vary according to the type of spinal ...