Waking up one day, remembering that every inch of one’s body can not move, but the mind knows what is going on; asking why is this happening. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig disease, has many people waking up to this feeling. ALS is a disease, where your brain is functioning normal, but other parts of the body are unfunctional. Now the brain is not functioning how it normally should, but the body is functioning how it should be. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a disease that is affecting the brain little by little, but does not change a person’s physical function. Both ALS and CTE start from a simple hit to the head,which causes one to have a concussions. Concussions occur when the brain is being hit with
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People who tend to get ALS are older, between the age of 40-70, and after being diagnosed they live about 2-5 years. After diagnosed people’s joints become weaker, start having respiratory problems, speech pattern problems, and toxic protein travels from the spinal cord to the brain.Many National Football League(NFL) players are diagnosed with ALS, some start foundations to help out others in need. O.J. Brigance, retired NFL player, was diagnosed with ALS; he started a foundation called Brigance Brigade, to help supply equipment to others with ALS. The equipment he contributes the foundation with, are supplies that will help one to communicate with others, machines that will make it easier for a person to breath, and other technology that is needed to help people with ALS. Living with ALS is difficult to live with, but thanks to the help and support foundations offer it makes it easier for a person to continue their life; despite of knowing that the chances of recovery is …show more content…
Although not everyone has concussions, the ones who so are in sports. Females are being more exposed to concussions because of weaker neck control and male fail to report the symptoms. Concussions can happen to someone without them noticing because just with banging your head against the wall or hitting your head with something hard by accident is causing brain damage. At first it is not easy to detect since many people do not pay attention to the what they feel cause the symptoms are normal. Some of the symptoms are having headaches frequently, feeling tired constantly, and your character changes. Both the Baseline Test and Impact test are used to reveal that you have a concussion. Concussions can have normal symptoms that makes everyone think that it is nothing, it is normal to feel that way;but in reality you are causing damage to your brain, and it better to find out to help out the situation than to let it
People who tend to get ALS are older, between the age of 40-70, and after being diagnosed they live about 2-5 years. After diagnosed people’s joints become weaker, start having respiratory problems, speech pattern problems, and toxic protein travels from the spinal cord to the brain.Many National Football League(NFL) players are diagnosed with ALS, some start foundations to help out others in need. O.J. Brigance, retired NFL player, was diagnosed with ALS; he started a foundation called Brigance Brigade, to help supply equipment to others with ALS. The equipment he contributes the foundation with, are supplies that will help one to communicate with others, machines that will make it easier for a person to breath, and other technology that is needed to help people with ALS. Living with ALS is difficult to live with, but thanks to the help and support foundations offer it makes it easier for a person to continue their life; despite of knowing that the chances of recovery is …show more content…
Although not everyone has concussions, the ones who so are in sports. Females are being more exposed to concussions because of weaker neck control and male fail to report the symptoms. Concussions can happen to someone without them noticing because just with banging your head against the wall or hitting your head with something hard by accident is causing brain damage. At first it is not easy to detect since many people do not pay attention to the what they feel cause the symptoms are normal. Some of the symptoms are having headaches frequently, feeling tired constantly, and your character changes. Both the Baseline Test and Impact test are used to reveal that you have a concussion. Concussions can have normal symptoms that makes everyone think that it is nothing, it is normal to feel that way;but in reality you are causing damage to your brain, and it better to find out to help out the situation than to let it