ALS Bucket Challenge

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS has been recently brought mass attention by the Ice Bucket Challenge

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that progressively affects nerve cells in one’s brain and spinal cord, and creates the inability for the brain to control muscle movement, and, in most cases, slowly paralyzes the patient. It is the progressive effect of the disease on the nerve cells that can lead to the eventual paralyzation of a patient, while the brain of the patient is usually still intact, and able to understand even complicated concepts, as well as understand where they are, what is happening, and can comprehend what is going on around them with family members and friends.

Currently, there is no medical treatment that can improve the symptoms and effects that ALS has on the body. However, more and more people are becoming aware of ALS, and with awareness comes research. Across the globe, people are making great donations toward finding a cure for this awful disease. Since there is no treatment, the focus, for now, has become making the person as comfortable as possible, but many would like to see that focus shift to a cure. Such comfort-care includes emotional support, communication therapy, respiratory care, nutritional care, bowel and bladder care, and careful positioning of the patient’s body, which is extremely important.

ALS sufferers do not lose sensation, just the ability to move or control muscles. This makes comfort care extremely important. One way to guarantee comfort and great positioning is through a neck pillow. The proper neck pillow will offer comfort, support, and stability, and can save an ALS patient from sleepless nights. The Neck Sofa Pillow is ideal for that patient who is dealing with pain from a medical injury, from paralysis, or with a disease as life-crushing as ALS. The Neck Sofa Pillow was designed to be used in different positions to optimize comfort and support. This makes it perfect for an ALS patient. ALS patients often find that staying in the same position can cause stiffness, aches, and pains. Rotating through the 9 positions the Neck Sofa Pillow offers, can help prevent the problems often caused by regular pillows.

To your comfort… Gabriel