Stem Cell Treatment for Motor Neuron Disease in Turkey
Motor neuron disease is a disorder that selectively affects the nerves regulating the body’s muscles and spares the nerves responsible for sensations such as contact, pain, temperature, and motion. This is a chronic disease; often the rate of progression can be gradual, but with the life span of only 3 to 5 years after its symptoms begin to appear, it can also progress very rapidly. Usually it starts with a single extremity or one aspect of motor function but eventually it takes a more generalized turn and quickly weakens every muscle in the body leaving a conscious mind trapped in a crippling body.
The diseases that come under the group of motor neuron disease are:
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – One of faster progressing disorders
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Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS) – Upper motor neuron affection
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Progressive bulbar palsy (PBP) – Affects both, upper and lower motor neurons and starts with speech and swallowing affections.
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Progressive muscular atrophy (PMA) – Lower motor neurons are affected and has a comparatively slower rate of deterioration.
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Kennedy disease – Presents as an MND, however, is a hereditary condition which affects adult males causing slowly progressive weakness and wasting of muscles with only lower motor neuron involvement and other features.
