The Institute of Myology and the AFM-Telethon organized a press conference on Tuesday, 7 February 2023, on the theme of muscle, an essential tissue in everyday life and throughout life: Muscle is a major public health issue.

Beyond their primary function – motor skills – studies have shown that the state of the muscles, by interacting with numerous organs and biological mechanisms, is a major determinant of the individual health condition. Moreover, while 400 neuromuscular diseases have been identified, muscle is also affected in the main chronic pathologies such as metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, but also cancer and diabetes, and can constitute a prognostic marker for these pathologies.

Muscle therefore represents a real public health issue but is not currently recognized as such and its scientific and medical study – myology – remains insufficiently recognized and taught.

This is why the Institute of Myology and the AFM-Telethon are organizing two major events in June 2023 to bring this topic and its challenges to the attention of as many people as possible:

• The first “Muscle Conferences”, on 1 June 2023, at the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (by invitation)
• The first “Muscle Week”, 1-7 June 2023, a public awareness event deployed and relayed throughout the country

The Institute of Myology and the AFM-Telethon have also announced their joint project to create a Myology Foundation with a new building that will be built in 2027, in Paris, near the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital. This building, designed by the architects Brunet Saunier Associés and Belval & Parquet Architectes, will cover almost 10,000 m² and will be a place of international influence whose objective is to study, diagnose, evaluate and treat muscle, whether healthy, diseased, aging or trained.

> Muscle, a major public health issue

> Read the interview with Laurence Tiennot-Herment

> Find out more about the Foundation of Myology project led by the Myology Institute Association and the AFM-Telethon

Latest news: 90,839,067 euros for the Telethon 2022: we have not given up. We thank you all!

Thank you to everyone: donors, volunteers mobilized throughout France and abroad, partners, personalities! Thanks to your unfailing mobilization on December 2 and 3, the Telethon 2022 raised 90,839,067 euros! This tremendous result – the best since 2016 – shows how much the French people support the struggle of families. The 2023 Telethon will take place on December 8 and 9.

> Read more about the results of the Téléthon 2023 (in French)