The neuromuscular pathology clinical unit is directed by  Prof Bruno Eymard

Since 2005, this large clinic is an important part of the Reference centre for neuromuscular disorders of East of Paris. It is a set of clinical competences organized round highly specialized medical teams. 

In 2009, 4 243 consultations have been provided and 1 723 day hospitalisations have been counted. We receive an exceptional number of patients from France but several patients are sent to us for a second opinion from Belgium, French-speaking North African countries and all Europe.
 
The fields of competence of our clinical structure include diagnostic expertise in the disease and its complications, therapeutic management, genetic counselling, patient follow-up for all the above elements and clinical research.
 
The unit provides pluridisciplinary consultations for adults and children. The patient is seen successively by the coordinating physician, a neurologist for the adults and a paediatrician for the children, then by the cardiologist (echography), pneumologist (functional respiratory tests), physiotherapist, psychologist and social worker. Cardiological and respiratory management advice, genetic counselling, help with familial or psychological difficulties and information about quality of life consequences are offered to both children and adults. For adults, emphasis is placed on the functional physiotherapy consultation. However, the paediatric consultation also has its specificities, for example, the importance of orthopaedic problems due to growth, itself justifying specialised medicosurgical advice for possible vertebral arthrodesis or tenotomy of the lower limbs.
 
The pathologies under examination are either genetic (dystrophies, congenital myopathies, metabolic myopathies, congenital myasthenic syndromes, neuropathies) or acquired (myasthenia gravis, inflammatory, endocrine, toxic or iatrogenic myopathies, psychogenic affections).