Lou Gehrig's Disease: Amycotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

Amyotrophic meaning, “no muscle nourishment” in Greek, lateral meaning where the neurons are in the spinal cord, and sclerosis meaning “scarring.” ALS, often known as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease,” named after the New York Yankee who first brought awareness to the disease in the late 1930’s, is a neurodegenerative disease, which affects the neurons in the brain. The nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that are responsible for sending and receiving motor signals progressively die off, causing the deterioration of simple motor skills in patients with ALS, such as walking, talking, and eventually speaking and breathing, however thinking is not affected by ALS. Early symptoms cause the person to slowly lose mobility of limbs, but in a matter of a few years, the person loses the mobility of most of their body and will eventually lose the ability to eat and breath, which will ultimately cause death. ALS deteriorates the patient's body, however does not affect the patient's state of mind or sanity while the rest of the body shuts down. People usually get ALS between the ages of 40 and 70. However, there is a growing trend where athletes are getting ALS in their thirties. ALS can be contributed to genetic predisposition, which means that the gene that is responsible for ALS is already in the person’s DNA. In recent studies, however, it was observed that individuals who have had suffered multiple concussions or any other head trauma are

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.

Lou Gehrig was born in New York City in the year 1903. Lou was born into poverty, his dad could not keep a job and could not stay sober while his mother worked hard but could not make enough to support Gehrig and his three siblings. The Gehrig family took advantage of Lou’s excellent athletic ability in baseball and football and sent him to college. At Columbia University Lou played fullback for the football team and pitcher for the baseball team while studying engineering. Although Gehrig was pitching, the New York Yankees liked the way he swung the bat so they offered him his first professional league contract. Gehrig had a much decorated major league career in the MLB. He set the record for most consecutive games played, 2,130, which is about 13 years of games. He set multiple batting records that include most Runs Batted In in a season, most home runs in one game, and winning the Triple Crown Award (Having the most home runs, RBIs, and batting average in the MLB). Lou also won six World Series titles in his baseball career with the Yankees. In 1938 Lou noticed that he was not playing baseball as well as he should be. At this time he also noticed that he was having trouble tying his shoes and other simple tasks so he scheduled a doctor’s appointment. In 1939 Lou was officially diagnosed with ALS, ending his

ALS was also called Lou Gehrig disease. The reason why it was called the Lou Gehrig diseases is because he was a famous MLB baseball player that was diagnosed with ALS and later on died from it. Lou Gehrig was born in New York City, on June 19, 1903. Lou devoted his whole life in Baseball and his family. Later on Lou was having a hard time tying his shoes and had a feeling that this can be his end of his career. In 1939, The doctor had a bad news for him which was that he was diagnosed with ALS.

Lou Gehrig’s Disease Thesis: Weakness in the hands, arms, legs or slurred speech. Imagine having these symptoms and not knowing what is wrong. Then the most dreaded words are uttered, “You have Lou Gehrig’s Disease”. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or other wise known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, is a disease that attacks muscles and brain cells. “ALS was first found in 1869 by French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot,but it wasn’t until 1939 that Lou Gehrig brought national and international attention to the disease” (About).

ALS got the name Lou Gehrig’s disease from a New York Yankee’s baseball player. Lou Gehrig had his first symptoms when his batting average had plummeted. He couldn’t hit long balls anymore. His strength was deteriorating. He also started to walk very slowly. After things started going downhill, he found out he had the disease which would later be named after him. He had ALS. On June 4, 1939 Lou said good-bye to his fans and Yankee Stadium. He was going to retire from baseball because of the condition he was in. He was dying of ALS. There have also been many other well-known people diagnosed with this disease. Stephan Hawking was diagnosed with ALS in 1963 when he was only 21 years old, and he is still alive.

The article titled “The Voices of A.L.S. by Tara Parker-Pope has given me a better insight into A.L.S. In fact, it has made me more aware of it. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, affects parts of the nervous system that control voluntary muscle movement. Motor neurons, among the largest of all nerve cells, reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to muscles throughout the body. When these motor neurons die, the brain can no longer start and control muscle movement. At this time there is no cure for the disease; however, over the past few decades, we have made amazing strides in our understanding of the brain, the nervous system, and genetics. Discoveries in each of these areas bring

ALS, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a disease that attacks the muscles and impacts a person’s physical function. Overtime, the symptoms will

Lou Gehrig, one of the greats in baseball, had his amazing record taken from him during the 1939 season when he gave the umpire the cards of the players and announced he would no longer play the game. The reason for this was Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis disease or ALS. This disease later became known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. ALS was first discovered by French Neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot in 1869. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis affects the brain and spinal cord nerve cells. “A-myo-trophic means no muscle nourishment” (ALS association: What Is ALS?).

In 1939, the famous baseball player for the New York Yankees, Lou Gehrig was diagnosed with the incurable neurodegenerative disease called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. This time period is when ALS came to the forefront of the mind of sports fans. On June 2, 1941 , Lou Gehrig lost his heroic and inspiring fight against the paralyzing disease, ALS. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is now also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease in the United States, mainly because of Lou Gehrig’s impact on American culture during his time. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is very fatal to its victims. There are many aspects of this disease that must be spoken about on occasion, but the biggest point to be made is that Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis can attack

ALS, CTE’s are the most common diseases in today, they usually cause by hitting the head. ALS is stand for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(ALS). ALS is a disease which affects people’s brain and people’s muscles. CTE is stand for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy(CTE). CTE is a disease which is caused by hitting the head. CTE also include the disease which called ALS. Concussions and head trauma are part of Traumatic Brain Injuries(TBI), they are have differences. Those diseases are affecting the daily life of people, such as speaking, eating and walking. People need to take care about those disease, and understand what are those diseases.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig Disease, it's a disease that affect the neurons in the brain and its ability to communicate with other neurons leading to complications to the spinal cord. This disease affects the victim in various ways it's a progressive disease meaning it starts off slowly

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis was discovered in 1869 by a French neurologist named Jean-Martin Charcot. However, the disease did not become known worldwide until 1939 when famous baseball player, Lou Gehrig was diagnosed. The disease later took his life. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as ALS, or more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons extend from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles distributed throughout the human body. Degeneration of motor neurons eventually lead to death. Amyotrophic comes from the Greek language which translate into "No muscle nourishment. ALS can be summed

Due to the fact that Lou Gehrig’s disease is an overwhelming disease, researchers and doctors are working on a larger variety of medications and therapies to slow down the disease since there is no

The manifestations of ALS are caused by the location of motor neuron death. When upper motor neurons die, the symptoms include problems controlling fine movements, spasms, dysphagia, dysphonia and dysarthria (Porth & Matfin, 2009). “Manifestations of lower motor neuron destruction include fasciculations, weakness, muscle atrophy, and hyporeflexia” (Porth & Matfin, 2009, p. 1284). Patients with early signs of ALS usually complain of feeling weak on one side, which is due to the slowing of electrical impulses to that group of muscles (Ignatavicius & Workman, 2010). Since the impulses are slowed, they are not receiving adequate electrical stimulation to move and the person feels weak. As the disease progresses, all the motor neurons die and are not regenerated so, the patient is left paralyzed, losing the ability to speak, swallow and breathe (Ignatavicius & Workman, 2010).