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Tuesdays with Morrie Research Paper By Jordan Banfield 5th hour “ALS also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease is neurodegenerative disease.”(http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disIt’s a slow and painful road to your ultimate death. It will eventually take away everything that on a normal day would seem unimportant, not a big deal. It will cause you lose of the use of your limbs, your ability to speak, and eventually your ability to breathe. It will take you through your biggest trials while leading you to the

“Full-movement neuromuscular electrical stimulation improves plantar flexor spasticity and ankle active dorsiflexion in stroke patients: a randomized controlled study” This was an interesting article. It examined the use of electrical stimulation as a treatment for spasticity in the ankle plantar muscles, specifically the tibias posterior, gastrocnemius, and soleus. Electrodes were placed over the extensor digitorum longus muscles and the extensor hallicus muscles of post stroke patients with plantar

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic neuromuscular disorder involving degeneration of anterior horn cells in the spinal cord due to a deficiency of SMN protein produced by the SMN1 gene. While this is an extensive topic, the following paper attempts to provide an overview of relevant aspects and treatment strategies of interest. The most obvious clinical sign of SMA is generalized, symmetric weakness that affects proximal more than distal muscles and upper more than lower extremities. Upper

is diagnosed through the process of elimination. Some diagnostic testing includes an electromyography, which detects electrical activity in muscles. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can also be done to show a detailed picture of the brain and spinal cord. A muscle and/or nerve sample from the body can be examined, as well as urine and blood

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

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a disease in which certain nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord slowly die. These nerve cells are also called motor neurons, and they control the voluntary muscles that allow you to move the parts of your body. ALS can also be referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease. (1) There are three classifications of ALS; sporadic, familial, and gumanian. Sporadic is the most common form of ALS and it makes up approximately 90 to 95 percent of all cases. Familial is the

A synapse is the space located between the motor neuron and the skeletal muscle which is also referred to as a neuromuscular junction. The motor neurons that originate from the spinal cord, help activate the skeletal muscle fibers. The innervation happens by the processes of the axon. The synapses are present along with these processes and are also known as motor endplate. The neuromuscular junction synapse has three characteristics. It consists of two membranes called the pre and post synaptic membranes

hysterectomy the week we returned, but our whole lives had been turned upside down again and our schedule greatly changed. My hysterectomy was scheduled for November 3, 2006, and both Micah and Miranda would have the de-tethering of their spinal cords on December 11, 2006. We had to be in New York on December 7, 2006, for tests so we would have to leave on December 6, 2006. Kevin and I discussed it and decided it was God for us to go on the vacation

You can think of the brain and the nervous system as a computer and network. The brain is the computer and the nervous system is the network which sends messages from the brain to the body. The nervous system transmits the messages through the spinal cord which houses very thin nerves which connect to all body parts. There are many parts that work together that contribute to the function of the nervous system. There are two main parts to the nervous system which are the central nervous system

Injuries to the spinal cord are serious medical emergencies that are often a result of direct trauma to the spinal column. There are 11,000 new cases of spinal cord injury in the United States each year. The most common causes of injury include motor vehicle accidents, falls, violence, and sports injuries (Lewis, Dirksen, Heitkemper, and Bucher, 2014). Males between ages 16 and 30 are at highest for suffering from a spinal cord injury. These types of injury are highly variable depending on the