Articles for tag: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Lou Gehrig, lou gehrig's disease

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ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease

ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative neurological disease of the parts of the nervous system that control voluntary muscle movement. Also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, named for the Yankees baseball player who died of it in 1941. Those with ALS experience the loss of nerve cells that control ...

What Is Emotional Incontinence?

As a single mom trying to make ends meet, I rented a room to a 20-something who worked in the same building as I did. He had suffered a severe closed-head injury in a car accident a decade earlier and had a number of permanent physical problems such as aphasia, thick speech, and an altered ...

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Lou Gehrig “The Iron Horse” Haiku

Iron Lou Gehrig The luckiest man on earth Heroes of baseball Lou Gehrig was the first of the iron men of baseball. From 1925 to 1939, Lou Gehrig played 2130 consecutive baseball games for the New York Yankees. Incredibly, Lou Gehrig hit 493 homeruns and had a career batting average of .340. This is an ...