Early symptoms of ALS often include increasing muscle weakness, especially involving the arms and legs, speech, swallowing and breathing ... the muscles begin to atrophy (waste away). Limbs begin to ...

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA ... such as ALS or Huntington's disease, as long ...

A large, retrospective analysis of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ... flail arm or flail leg syndromes or other disorders such as spinal bulbar muscular atrophy or multifocal motor ...

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA ... such as ALS or Huntington's disease, as long ...

Research on ALS has increased ... spinal cord and extend to the muscles. Dysfunction and impairment of LMNs result in muscle weakness (eg, foot drop), muscle atrophy, hyporeflexia, muscle ...

People with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease ... In the future, they hope to apply this therapy to other neurodegenerative diseases, such as ALS or Huntington’s disease.

The researchers also suggest that the same neurostimulation approach could be used to treat other neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Huntington’s disease ...

Their technique opens the way for using implantation to treat unscarred muscle atrophied by aging. Age-related muscular atrophy in skeletal ... anterior (in the lower leg) by a massive ten percent.