Are you AWARE?
Your Veurinks' RV Family is bringing awareness to Lou Gehrig's Disease. Our sales team did the bucket challenge and is challenging you to donate, and become educated on ALS.
Your Veurinks' RV Family is bringing awareness to Lou Gehrig's Disease. Our sales team did the bucket challenge and is challenging you to donate, and become educated on ALS.
If you aren't familiar with ALS or haven't known someone fighting with this, we encourage you to become educated and learn more!
What exactly is ALS?
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually lead to their death. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.
A few F A C T S about ALS:
-It is not contagious
-It is estimated that ALS is responsible for nearly two deaths per hundred thousand population annually.
-ALS can strike anyone.
-ALS occurs throughout the world with no racial, ethnic or socioeconomic boundaries.
Symptoms of ALS
-Muscle weakness in or more more of the following: hands, legs, arms or the muscles of speech, swallowing or breathing.
-Twitching and cramping of muscles, especially those in hands and feet
-Impairment of the use of arms or legs
-"Thick Speech" and difficulty projecting the voice
-In more advanced stages, shortness of breath, difficulty in breathing and swallowing.
Forms of ALS
-Sporadic: most common form in the U.S.
-Familial: occurs more than once in a family lineage
Guamanian: an extremely high incidence of ALS was observed in Guam and the Trust Territories of the Pacific in the 1950's.
The most common form in the US is Sporadic. It may affect anyone, anywhere.
How can you help fight Lou Gehrig's Disease?
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Ready to see our Sales Team get some ice cold buckets of water dumped on them? Also, tune into the video, to see WHO they are challenging to do the same!
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