SAR HP 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Peripheral Nervous System, Multiple Sclerosis, Spasticity
26 Dec 2018
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In ms the myelin sheath cover is being attacked the nerves in the peripheral nervous system. Multiple sclerosis, or ms, is a long-lasting disease that can affect your brain, spinal cord, and the optic nerves in your eyes. It can cause problems with vision, balance, muscle control, and other basic body functions. Ms is a chronic condition which doesn"t have a cure but has management therapy. Fatigue 75% of people of ms have ms fatigue people will have a very debilitating fatigue. This fatigue makes it very dif cult for people to function. Weakness in limbs types of ms: relapsing remitting ms: goes in waves, with some positive and some negative periods of time. It can be caused by stress, illness person is put on steroids and immune system goes back to normal: secondary progressive ms: some relapsing ms convert into secondary progressive ms.
