ELA / ALS
A ideia é ter um sítio onde possa partilhar ideias, expôr dificuldades e soluções e dessa forma ajudar-nos uns aos outros na vivência com esta doença. The general idea is to have a place to share ideas, talk about the difficulties and about how to solve some of them thus helping each other in dealing with this disease.
Acerca de / About
A esclerose lateral amiotrófica (ELA), também chamada de doença do neurónio motor, doença de Charcot (nome do grande neurologista francês) ou doença de Lou Gehrig (jogador de basebol americano, portador da doença) é uma doença paralísante progressiva e fatal, causada por uma degeneração dos neurónios motores do córtex cerebral, tronco encefálico e medula espinhal.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as "Lou Gehrig's Disease," is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.