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Symptoms
Facts
treatments/tips
Define
systems to causes
100
Bowel/urinary
what is constipation, difficulty urinating
100
What gender is most likely to get this disease?
What is Females
100
what Can be used to decrease the severity of attacks?
What is steroids
100
Urine or bowel leakage
What is Incontinence
100
disruption of electrical impulses to the bladder.
What is bowel/ urinary system
200
Muscular system
What is pain or tightness around joints
200
commonly diagnosed between what ages?
What is 20 to 40
200
What to avoid?
What is fatigue, stress, temperature extremes and illness
200
feelings of stiffness and a wide range of involuntary muscle spasms (sustained muscle contractions or sudden movements).
What is Spasticity
200
electrical imbalances causing hyperactive stretch reflexes.
What is Muscular system
300
Respiratory System
What is difficulty breathing, mucous buildup in the lungs
300
what percent of people with ms have bladder control issues?
What is 80%
300
What types of therapy are helpful?
What is physical therapy, speech therapy,occupational therapy
300
Autoimmune disease the affects the brain and spinal cord?
What is Multiple sclerosis
300
Weakness in the ventilatory muscles of the chest and abdomin
What is respiratory system
400
Changes in voice tone
What is respiratory
400
true or false, 550,000 in the US have MS?
What is False
400
true or false: there is a cure for this disease?
What is False
400
mucous build up in the lungs can cause this..
What is pneumonia
400
Loss of muscle strength in chest
What is respiratory
500
fatigue
What is muscular System
500
what percentage of newly diagnosed people have relapsing remitting form of ms
What is 85%
500
what types of assistive are available?
What is wheelchairs, bed lifts, walkers
500
Occurs when the body's own immune cells attack the nervous system
What is inflammation