Investigations Neurological examination, electrophysiological studies and genetic testing. Diagnosis Recessive myotonia congenita (Becker's disease). Management Explanation of the nature of the ...

"The typical inability to relax after a muscle contraction in myotonia congenita is not seen during or between attacks of adynamia episodica hereditaria." It was therefore with some interest that ...

The gene that causes myotonia congenita is recessive. This means if myotonic goats reproduce with other types of goats that don’t have this condition, their offspring won’t have it either.