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 ...
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 ...
Many people suffer from a mysterious condition in which they become consumed by intense fear – fear that they will be dead within five years, all because of two things: muscle twitching, and the Internet. The Internet has spawned terror in thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people in America. It begins quite innocently, and ...
Genetic disorders are varied and can affect both men and women alike. For men, however, there are some genetic disorders for which a greater risk is held and, often, women are not affected. Kennedy’s disease, a progressive genetic disorder of the nervous system, typically affects men and is often not diagnosed until mid adulthood. Sometimes ...
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 ...
This disease is an attack on the motor neurons (nerves) in the brain and spinal cord. These neurons control the muscles, once they are destroyed you can no longer control the muscles. Recently the disease became clearer to me when someone that I went to school with was diagnosed with this. This was a very ...