Lou Gehrig's Disease Essay

It is a gloomy night on June 2, 1941 when a mysterious serial killer finishes off one of its many victims. That victim is famous Yankee baseball player Lou Gehrig. Americans are shocked as they find out their beloved baseball star is gone. This wicked murderer is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS. With ALS there also comes Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE, the more common killer with a taste for athletes. As extensive research is done on these diseases, they soon link them to brain injuries. Even with this known, the chances of an athlete being maliciously murdered by these killers are still the same as when Lou Gehrig died. That’s why not only should the people eradicate contact based sports, but citizens should also find new ways

As of now there are no cures, but there are muscular therapies that can prolong the ability of movement for the patient. This disease is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, named after the famous New York Yankees baseball star Lou Gehrig for his diagnosis of the disease which ended his career as well as life. With his death at age 37, and the average age of ALS patients being 55, extensive research began. Although there is little evidence supporting ties of head trauma and ALS, the Neurology Reviews page at mdedge.com reported to have found reliable studies showing ties of CTE and ALS. “of 12 deceased athletes who had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)”... “Two of the athletes were former football players and had been clinically diagnosed with ALS, and the third, an ex-boxer and military veteran, had been diagnosed with atypical ALS with dementia.”(1). With CTE playing a large role in who develops ALS the people can either chose to ignore it or halt all contact based sports, dropping the chance of developing ALS as well as