For three weeks during Lou Gehrig’s final season, the baseball legend appeared to shake off his symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and regain his flagging prowess. Richard Bedlack, MD, PhD, founder and director of Duke University’s ALS clinic, and baseball author Dan Joseph, provide an analysis of this episode from the Iron Horse‘s last full season with the New York Yankees. in 1938. They suggest that Gehrig may have experienced a temporary ALS reversal, which might provide useful insights for researchers and those coping with the disorder.
Their analysis, “A Great Yankee’s Indian Summer: Did Lou Gehrig Experience a Temporary ALS Reversal While Playing in August 1938?,” was published in RRNMF Neuromuscular Journal.
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Their analysis, “A Great Yankee’s Indian Summer: Did Lou Gehrig Experience a Temporary ALS Reversal While Playing in August 1938?,” was published in RRNMF Neuromuscular Journal.
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