Rehabilitation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Rehabilitation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: why it matters.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that results in a constellation of problematic symptoms and a high patient and caregiver burden. Multidisciplinary care includes rehabilitation interventions that have the goal of assisting people to teach their fullest potential despite the presence of a disabling disease. Given the progressive nature of ALS, the clinicia...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in a Patient with Behçet’s ‎Disease

Behçet’s ‎disease is a multisystem vasculitis. Its neurological involvement mostly includes parenchymal and non-parenchymal central nervous system manifestations. Peripheral nervous system presentations are rare. A 32-yr-old male patient who fulfilled the international study group criteria for Behçet’s disease, referred to our center with walking difficulty and repeated falling downs. Neurologi...

Palliative rehabilitation and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a perfect match.

The World Health Association defines palliative care as a medical discipline that aims to improve the quality of life of the patient and caregiver/family faced with an incurable and potentially life-threatening illness. Palliative care relieves pain and other distressing symptoms, affirms life while regarding death as a normal and life fulfilling process; neither hastens nor postpones death; in...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Touch MEdical MEdia 53 Fasciculation, which is observed in various peripheral motor neuron disorders, is most frequently found in nonprogressive benign fasciculation syndrome (BFS). Patients with BFS never exhibit muscle atrophy or pathologic weakness and not all such patients visit hospitals; therefore, the prevalence and characteristics of BFS still need to be established. However, among the ...