Proximal means nearer to the center of the body, or to the point where a limb attaches, the opposite of distal, which means farther away. In CMT, the distal muscles of the feet and hands are usually affected first and most, while the proximal muscles closer to the trunk tend to be involved later, if at all.
When Medicine Lost Its Compass
Evidence failed not because it was wrong, but because it was weaponized. I lived the downstream effects of that failure for more than a decade. This is what happens when medicine forgets that data always ends in a human being.
