Neuromuscular Multidisciplinary Clinic
Our team focuses on diseases that affect the nerves, muscles and the connections between them.
Neuromuscular conditions affect the nerves and muscles, and they can change how you move, work and live.
At the Neuromuscular Multidisciplinary Clinic at Longtown Medical Park, a team of specialists works together to help you improve or maintain your strength, movement, independence, safety and quality of life.
Your team includes a neuromuscular specialist, a nurse and a physical therapist. Based on your needs, we may also bring in occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, case managers, and specialists in wheelchair seating, orthotics, lung care, heart care and rheumatology.
Who May Benefit
The clinic may be right for you if you have been diagnosed with:
- Muscular dystrophy, hereditary neuropathy or myopathy, or other genetic neuromuscular disorder
- An Inflammatory or degenerative muscle disorder, such as polymyositis, dermatomyositis or inclusion body myositis
- An immune-related nerve disorder, such as CIDP, AIDP, MADSAM, multifocal motor neuropathy or vasculitic neuropathy
- Sensory or motor neuronopathy
- Plexopathy or radiculopathy-plexopathy
- A motor neuron disease, such as ALS, PLS, PMA, SMA, PBP or Kennedy’s disease
- A neuromuscular junction disorder, such as myasthenia gravis or Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
How to Get Started
Care begins with a referral to Dr. Swathi Beladakere Ramaswamy, a neuromuscular specialist at Neurology Consultants of North Mississippi. She will meet with you, review your symptoms and confirm your diagnosis. If the clinic is a good fit, you can be enrolled in the Neuromuscular Multidisciplinary Clinic for coordinated care and long-term follow-up.