"What's that then?"

This is a question we have come across many many times with loads of the medical proffession.

Dyschondrosteosis (Leri Weill syndrome) is a genetic bone dysplasia.

It is got it's name after two doctors who first described the condition back in 1929.

For those who have Leri Weill usually have short stature and a characteristic change in their formearms called Madelung Deformity, which is associated with wrist problems.

Adult height in females range between 135 and 164 cm in females and between 156 and 171 cm in males with this condition.  In some cases, it is possible for a person to be taller, or smaller.

The males with Leri Weill often have very well developed muscles, this is due to muscular hypertrophy.

Females, and it is not know why, are more severly affected compared to males with this condition.

The Madelung deformity affects individuals in different ways. Some may experience severe and crippling pains in the wrist, resulting in wrist surgery or just having to suffer years of pain because the doctors just don't know how to deal with such a rare deformity.  Whilst others may experience very little or nothing at all.

There are other areas of the body that some people are affected also, like the knees, ankles and even the backs.

There is no magical cure for Leri Weill or Madelung only corrective surgery or pain killers.

Leri Weill and Madelung can affect just one member of the family or several. In my husbands family out of the all his relatives there is only 3 members that have Leri Weill and Madelung (His mother, sister and himself).  My husband is the only one that is suffering greatly with Madelung and is having surgery done, while the other two have no problems what so ever.