What is Motor Neurone Disease?
Motor Neurone Disease (MND) is the name given to a group of diseases in which the nerve cells (neurones) controlling the muscles that enable us to move around, speak, breathe and swallow, fail to work normally.
With no nerves to activate them, muscles gradually weaken and waste. The patterns of weakness vary from person to person
What are the symptoms?
Early symptoms are mild, and include stumbling due to weakness of the leg muscles, difficulty of holding objects due to weakness of hand muscles, slurring of speech or swallowing difficulties due to weakness of the tongue and throat muscles.
The effect of MND varies enormously in respect of initial symptoms, rate and pattern of progression, and survival time after diagnosis.
Is there a cure?
At present there is no cure, but co-ordinated research is being carried out across the world and encouraging progress is being made.
For more information visit the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Western Australia.
Motor Neurone Disease (MND) is the name given to a group of diseases in which the nerve cells (neurones) controlling the muscles that enable us to move around, speak, breathe and swallow, fail to work normally.
With no nerves to activate them, muscles gradually weaken and waste. The patterns of weakness vary from person to person
What are the symptoms?
Early symptoms are mild, and include stumbling due to weakness of the leg muscles, difficulty of holding objects due to weakness of hand muscles, slurring of speech or swallowing difficulties due to weakness of the tongue and throat muscles.
The effect of MND varies enormously in respect of initial symptoms, rate and pattern of progression, and survival time after diagnosis.
Is there a cure?
At present there is no cure, but co-ordinated research is being carried out across the world and encouraging progress is being made.
For more information visit the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Western Australia.
