In the United States, a woman was diagnosed with a rare genetic disease that turns muscles into bones

In the United States, a woman was diagnosed with a rare genetic disease in which new bones grow in the muscles. People reports this.

At age 16, Holly LaPrade began to notice that her neck and shoulders were losing mobility and her arms could no longer lift above her head. Doctors, seeing tumors in soft tissues on x-rays, suspected she had lymphoma.

A biopsy revealed that the cause was fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), a condition in which bones form in muscles, tendons and ligaments, gradually creating a second skeleton and literally “locking” the body into bones. The disease affects approximately one in two million people and was long considered incurable.

The American woman is now 45 years old. There was no treatment when she was diagnosed, but now several drugs have been approved and she calls it "incredible progress." She is married, works as a human resources manager, drives a car, travels and goes to concerts.

LaPrade calls the main difficulty of living with such a diagnosis isolation: the disease is so rare that it is difficult for others to understand the daily restrictions.