The question is what is Lou Gehrigs Disease? The answer is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as ALS and the most common name Lou Gehrigs disease. ALS was founded in 1869 by a French neurologist Sean Martin Charcot. Amyotrophic means there is no muscle nourishment. Lateral meaning the area in the spinal cord where the nerve cells that instruct and manage are. Sclerosis is a condition in which a tissue has become hard. This is a neurodegenerative disease that is progressive and affects the nerve cells in the spinal cord and the brain. The muscle becomes wasted due to lack of nourishment and the degeneration due to scarring and hardening. The end result is the loss of use of the voluntary muscles. The course and progression of
