James Eckburg and MS

[James Eckburg]

James Eckburg and MS:

The Primary or Secondary Progressive Stages of Multiple Sclerosis

When a new relapses occurs, an increased level od a fixed disability will be come challenging. The patients self-image is forced to readjust, the unpredictable tempo of Multiple Sclerosis goes on.

The natural history evaluation of large populations is followed over several decades shows that within 15 years of the first onset of the dease of MS almost 50 percent of the people will require a full-time walking aid such as a cane or a crutch. Many of the patients may have to contend with other impairments as well such as: decrease vision; distressing problems of poor bowel and bladder control; muscle tightness (termed spasticity); besides being poorly understood but with common fatigue, along with weakness, clumsiness. Also there is the tremors in an arm or leg, and posibly a deccline in intellectual functions (partial dementia). The patients understandably develop various levels of depression as their loss of daily funtion becomes evident an increases over time.

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When MS goes into a relapsing phase during which the patients experience a relapses followed by some little recovery that is separated by unpredictable intervals of MS and than sometimes sooner or later you are back to normal.

When this course and pattern of MS changes the patient experience an increase or a progressionin neurologic disablity. Which may advance quite rapidly or may come on slowly over a period of several years. During this time it maybe interrupted by plateaus of relative neurologic stability.
The patient may look very normal on the outside as if to look very Healthy.

The term Secondary Progressive Phase is used because it is progressive (increasing disability to the patient) but is secondary to the preceding relasping-remitting phase of MS.

Some Patients have describe how one year they are able to walk and go up stairs in their home with no problem. But months later they have to have help getting up the same staris. They have to use the banister to help them get up the staris.Some patients have to get a chair lift to manage this task.
Some patients have to discuss this with family and caregivers as to how to proceed if they want to live in their home.

James Eckburg
Senior Health and Wellness Strategist
www.Jamescornershop.com,
www.eckburgjoe.veretekk.com

114 E. Franklin St.
Lanark, Illinois 61046
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