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was banned as the people misused it. Medically prescribed marijuana has a beneficial effect on patients who suffer from disabilities, cancer, and mental health issues. Medical marijuana can help different types of disabilities like schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, and HIV. A cannabidiol (CBD) treatment was given and studied with schizophrenia. The results of…

A medical diagnosis can change our minds in a positive or negative way, we can suggest to keep an open mind, when Cancer and Multiple sclerosis change our perspective on how we see illness. The Cancer Journal by Audre Lorde reflects on how a woman who loses her breast still believes that she is a warrior. Likewise, a famous feminist, Nancy Mairs, author of “On Being a Cripple” is a woman who calls herself “a cripple” by making fun of herself instead of having others do it for her. The way people…

white cell membranes more pliable. Steroids can also help by reducing the swelling around the MS lesions, which causes better nerve transmission through the damaged area. (Steroids, MS Drugs). Kathy was experiencing common issues associated with multiple sclerosis, symptoms such as numbness and weakness or loss of muscle movement. These problems are due to the loss of myelin sheath around axons in the CNS, the impulses are not being properly communicated. Instead the impulses become confused or…

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a disease that impacts the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system). MS impacts the brain and spinal cord because the myelin sheath, which protects nerve fibers, is attacked by the immune system. Nerve fibers over time deteriorate or they become severely damages to the point where it is not reversible. The cause of this disease is not yet known but is classified as an autoimmune disease. It is said that a mix between genetics and environmental factors could be…

Jamie-Lynn Sigler. Jack Osbourne. Montell Williams. What do these three celebrities – and many Americans – have in common? They are all living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), which is “an adult onset neurological condition in which scattered lesions in the central nervous system [CNS] produce varying combinations of motor, sensory and cognitive impairments” (Yorkston, Baylor, & Amtmann, p. 197). The symptoms depend in part on where the plaques in the CNS are located and can include optic neuritis,…

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…

Phantom limb pain is defined as “pain perceived by the region of the body no longer present” (Subedi & Grossberg, 2011, p.1). This type of pain can be described as “shooting, severe burning, ischemic or crushing in nature or severe from…the limb being in a hyper-extended or unnatural position.” (Chapman, 2010, p. 35). Phantom limb sensation is the “nonpainful sensations experienced in the body part that no longer exist…phantom sensations are touch and pressure-like sensations.” (Subedi &…

Guillain-Barré Syndrome Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is not something that many people have dealt with or even heard of for that matter. According to the CDC, there is somewhere between 3,000-6,000 cases of GBS per year in the United States. That amounts to 1-2 people out of 100,000 per year (CDC, 2009). For me, Guillain-Barré syndrome is something that I have known about since I was eight years old. Not only was I aware that it existed, I thought it was going to take my dad away from me.…

Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic, progressive, degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. This disorder usually affects young adults between the ages of 20 and 40. Multiple frequency of occurrence is rare, .1% currently afflicts about 400,000 in the United States and 1 million worldwide. The cause of multiple sclerosis is unknown, but it is likely that multiple factors act in concert to trigger or perpetuate the disease. It has been hypothesized that multiple sclerosis results when an…

1.There is instructions for the first portion, but not for the speaking portion, so I will give this a score of 2. 2) There is a short instruction at the beginning, but there isn’t any written instruction for the short speech following the test. I think it is very fair and direct for the first section, but I think the speaking section needs to be explained by being written down. In any event, I give this a score of 2. 3) There is a short instruction, and the vocabulary terms used in the…