What is the lateral amyotrophic sclerosis? How to recognize a dangerous disease? Answers to these questions you will find in this article.
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Lateral amyotrophic sclerosis is one of the most severe neurological diseases, refers to slowly progressive diseases, inevitably leading to the death of the patient.
The human movement is carried out by the muscles that the nervous system is managed: a pulse is born in the muscular cortex of the brain, it comes to the spinal cord motor cells, which pick up this electric relay and transmit the muscles.
When the lateral amyotrophic sclerosis affects the spinal neurons, the motor cells in the side parts of the spinal cord die and can no longer pass the pulse from the neurons of the brain to the muscles. As a result, certain sections of the limbs remain fixed.
The largest number of spinal motor cells is in the cervical (hand management) and lumbar (leg control) thickening. More often the disease is striking the cervical level.
The disease develops slowly, urgent, manifests itself with weakness in hands of hands, which gradually spreads to all hands. The atrophic disorders are joined - the muscles lose weight, the brushes of hands acquire the view «clawed lap».
High Tone is characterized: the leg muscles are strongly tense (even in a dream), which does not allow patients to walk. The process of degeneration (death) of nervous cells rises above - to the brain and with the defeat of vital respiratory centers or heartbeat patients dying.
In the initial stages, diagnose lateral amyotrophic sclerosis is very complex, special EMG studies (electromyography) are required, but it is precisely early diagnostics that can effectively help the patient and extend its performance and life. With the feeling of increasing weakness in the hands, their fast fatigue during operation, weaknesses in the legs after walking need to contact the neuropathologist.
So, lateral amyotrophic sclerosis is accompanied by:
- pain in muscles, back;
- sensitive disorders (numbness, tingling in limbs);
- eye violations, ptosis;
- violations of the function of pelvic organs;
- Dementia (decay of mental functions as a result of brain lesions).
Treatment of lateral amyotrophic sclerosis lies in the reception of antiviral drugs, means that improve microcirculation and transmission of electrical signals from the nerve to the muscle, massage, physiotherapy.
The forecast depends on the form of the disease and stage to the beginning of treatment, but, in general, more often unfavorable.
