Parkinsons and Movement Disorders

Neuromuscular Disorders and Stroke

Neuromuscular disorder is a disease that affects the peripheral nervous system which includes muscles, nerve-muscle junction, and peripheral nerves in the limbs and motor nerve cells in the spinal cord. Approximately 5600 people in the US are diagnosed with ALS each year. In US each year 750,000 people experience stroke, 11000 people suffer spinal cord injury, 500,000 people suffering from cerebral palsy, 270,000 with multiple sclerosis and 5.3 million with the after effects of a traumatic brain injury and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Stroke is the unexpected death of brain cells due to lack of oxygen, affected by blockage of blood flow or breakout of an artery to the brain. Symptoms of stroke can be sudden loss of speech, weakness, or paralysis of one side of the body.