The ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) Group

This group is for lenses about Lou Gehrig's Disease, lenses designed to help end Lou Gehrig's Disease or for lenses about caring for patients with the disease.

Please see below for the terms for joining this group.

Want to join?

Please read this section before applying to join this group. The ALS Group is only for lenses pertaining to ALS, living with ALS, fighting ALS or caring for people with ALS. Lenses about the Walk to D'Feet ALS are also welcome. The lens can be about multiple things, but the predominant theme needs to be about ALS.

What is ALS?

ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease, is a yet-to-be-cured destroyer. It kills motor neurons in the body, and causes muscles to atrophy and die. Patients eventually can not walk or move their limbs or breathe on their own, but their brain function is not affected. They know exactly what is happening to them. Some lose the ability to speak.

Many patients with ALS die of respiratory failure or respiratory illnesses they can't fight off. The current statistics say that most die within 3-5 years of onset of symptoms, while a small number live 10 or more years. So little is known about ALS that new information comes out all the time - unfortunately, none of it includes a cure.

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