As a member of both the International Congress of Neuromuscular Disease (ICNMD) Steering Committee and Programme Committee, you helped shape this year’s Congress. The purpose of the ICNMD, which is part of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN), is to foster and promote neuromuscular disease. The traditional way for the congress to approach this is to try to tackle all four parts of the neuromuscular system: muscle, nerve, neuromuscular transmission, and motor neurone diseases. Regarding the prevalence of neuromuscular disease worldwide, the robustness of the data varies. The Global Burden of Disease Study includes neuromuscular disease, but not enough.