Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Diseases and infections. 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

Have you ever notice how some athletes are getting bigger then used to be. For example Barry Bonds was in shape but he was not very strong. Then all of the sudden he was really big and strong. That did not happen because he worked really hard in the gym; it was because he injected himself with steroids. Because of the fact that he injected himself he set the record for most home runs with 756, which put him past Hank Arron. Barry Bonds went from a contact hitter to a power hitter. Without steroids

One in five Americans suffers from a disability. While recovering (-- removed HTML --) from my injuriesWith time on my hands, I was readingread an article about Athletes for Kids, an organization I’d never heard of. Oddly, the reason I was drawn to this article was the fact that, for the first time in my life, I could relate to what it meant to live with a disability. Mine was temporary, caused by a soccer-related anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus tear and the ensuing surgeriessurgery. This

Jamie K PE Report 6215 Lou Gehrig Henry Louis was a first baseman, played 17 seasons for the New York Yankees, was elected into the baseball hall of fame, and was the first player to have their number retired. Although he started his Major League career halfway through the 1923 season with the Yankees, Lou made his mark in 1926 when he batted .313 with 47 doubles, 20 triples, and 16 home runs. But, he became famous in 1927 when put batted one of the greatest seasons or any batter in history, hitting

ALS, CTE and Concussions 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

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, which is also known as ALS is a motor neuron disease that affects the victim’s nervous system and renders their nervous system to break down with each passing second. Without the nervous system, people lose the ability to carry out normal day to day actions, such as walking and eating. If a normal person was given this diagnosis, they would most likely fall into an awful state of extreme depression due to the fact that their life was basically over. However, in the

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Morrie, who is suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS, is expressing to his friend Mitch how his disease is affecting him emotionally. "But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims… and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own,"(50). Because Morrie is dying himself

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis was discovered in 1873 1. Since then, scientists have tried to understand its causes in order to treat it effectively. They discovered the cause of 10% of ALS, the familial ALS, to be genetic causes, but the remainder 90% of ALS, the sporadic ALS, are still idiopathic 1. Thus, they used the concept that ALS is characterized by death or damage of the upper and lower motor neurons to find the causes. They have found several causes that affect the upper or the lower motor

In November of 2016 Former NFL Football player, Kevin Turner died of "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)" at the age of forty-six years old. Shockingly, it was found after his death that he died of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) not ALS. From this new discovery, the idea of ALS and CTE being linked was brought forth. ALS is a disease that attacks and weakens all other parts of the body except the brain, whereas CTE is a brain disease that is found in people who have experienced repetitive