Case Study: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. ALS is also named Lou Gehrig’s disease because he was the first person to bring ALS to a national attention in the 1930’s. Lou Gehrig’s amazing professional baseball career was ended short by this horrific disease. There are multiple treatments for ALS, but no cure for this fatal disease. In 2014, ALS was brought to major attention by the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Although Lou has the disease named after him, there are several other notable individuals who have been diagnosed with ALS. These individuals include Stephen Hawking, Jim Hunter, Steve Gleason, George Yardley

Since ALS has been discovered, many famous athletes have been spreading awareness for their fellow team mates, family or friends. They will continue spreading it around the world until there is an end to ALS. Lou Gehrig was a important man to the ALS association since he was majorly popular in the sports society. He spread the word about ALS to all the teams nation wide, who continued his legacy since he

ALS stands for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, it is also called Lou Gehrig’s Disease. This disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes muscle weakness, paralysis, and ultimately, respiratory failure. This disease has a lot of awareness from the world. Lots of people donate money , and have also done the ALS ice water bucket challenge.

ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) or Lou Gehrig’s Disease is a classified as a degenerative neurological disorder that inhibits motor neurons in the spinal cord and brain to function properly. This disease eventually results in paralysis and imminent death over a period of time. ALS patients have anywhere from a few months, to a couple years to live after diagnosis since their nervous systems are slowly destroyed, rendering the body useless, and sustaining life impossible.

People first need to know what ALS is. ALS is very difficult to diagnose. So far there is no

Lou Gehrig’s disease does not always begin or become worse in the same way. The disease is different for every person who has it. The

Diagnosed at such a young age, usually non-athletes get diagnosed with ALS at the age of 40-70 with average age at 55. Non-athletes don't suffer with injury to the head as much as Athletes do. Athletes however, tend to be diagnosed with ALS between 20’s and 30’s. CTE was discovered in 3 of 14 high school players and 48 of 53 college players. One Athlete named Junior Seau, who committed suicide in May, two years after retiring as one of the linebackers in the NFL. Seau suffered from the type of Chronic brain damage. The family of Seau stated “ a lot of head-to-head collisions over the course of 20 years of playing in the NFL, developed the detention of his brain and ability to think logically” (paragraph 4), resulted to the disease of CTE.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting both the upper and lower motor neurons in the cerebral cortex, brainstem, and spinal cord. It is the most common motor neuron disease in the adult population with a prevalence of two to seven cases per 100,000 individuals. Survival rates in persons with ALS show considerable variation. Five-year survival rates vary from 7% to 40%, whereas 10-year survival rates range from 8% to 16% (cite).

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis broken down into pieces; Amyotrophic means without muscle nourishment, lateral refers to the area of the affected brain and spine, and sclerosis means the hardening and degeneration of nerve cells and neurons. The symptoms of this disease vary from person to person which makes the diagnosis of this disease very difficult. One person may experience slurred speech and another might begin to drop things frequently. Other common symptoms

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a disease in which neurons lose function. It is a fatal disease that affects the brain and spinal cord, leaving a person unable to move, and eventually resulting in death.

The first season he did not play much at all, manly sitting the bench.For the next couple seasons, Lou was a great baseball player and played 2,130 games consecutively, even with a broken finger (Greenberger 5). During the 1939 season Lou’s batting average plummeted, and he could not field that well at all. Soon Lou started to trip or fall randomly and was in pain.Lou benched himself in the 1939 season (79). Finally, Lou was taken to the doctor and was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS. This was heartbreaking for Lou because he could not play what he loved, baseball. Soon all he could do was watch the games and bring up the players line up to the umpire (Greenberger

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive neurological disorder that destroy nerve cells causing death of motor neuron cells in the brain and spinal cord controlling voluntary muscle movements. It is considered a rare disease as only two out of 100,000 in a general population can develop it and there are approximately 20,000 to 30,000 cases in the United States (Miller et al 2004). It has also been shown that the disease affect men more than it does women with a ratio of three to two (Kiernan et al 2011).

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive neurodegenerative disease (ALS Association, 2016). A neurodegenerative disease is a disease in which nerve cells are damaged or killed. In this particular case, the damaged motor neurons affect voluntary movements (Newton et al., 2000). Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as ALS for short, got its name from the Greek language. By breaking the name into a-myo-trophic; “a” means no, “myo” refers to the muscle cells, and “trophic” refers to nourishment (ALS Association, 2016; Gulli & Veillette, 2002; Hains, 2006). “Lateral” indicates the area of the spinal cord where the nerves are being affected (Gulli & Veillette, 2002). “Sclerosis” refers to the scarring and hardening of the spinal cord

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease is a disease that affects your motor neurons in your spinal cord and brainstem. The decline of your upper neurons causes your muscles to tighten and the diminishment of your lower neurons causes your muscles to shrink down in size. When the neurons die, your brain no loses the ability to control your voluntary muscles like eating, speaking, moving, and eventually breathing. Most people diagnosed with ALS live up to 3-5 years after the diagnosis. Individuals between the ages of 40 and 70 are more likely to have this disease and nearly 6,000 people are diagnosed with the disease every year. There are two different forms of ALS, familial and sporadic. Familial

Have you ever heard of ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease? For many people, ALS is a disorder that they may not know much about. I never heard of it either until my father was diagnosed with this disease in 2006. Because there is no known cure, it is important to detect this disease early, so that proper treatments and preparation can be done before it’s too late.