what is the difference between ms and cerebral palsy?
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Cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis both involve damage to the brain. Cerebral palsy occurs very early in life, while multiple sclerosis is mostly acquired in adulthood. CP-related brain damage will not get worse over time; however, MS-related brain damage can.
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Answering the question posed in the title seems fairly simple (What is the difference between physical and mental disability): Physical disabilities affect the body, while metal disabilities affect the brain. That oversimplifies the reality of the situation to near meaninglessness, though.
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The types of brain damage that can cause cerebral palsy can also result in hearing impairment. An estimated 10-20 percent of children with cerebral palsy have some form of hearing impairment, and five percent are deaf (1).
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Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic illness that has some overlapping symptoms with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Fatigue is a common symptom in MS, even early in the disease [1].
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The main difference between secondary-progressive MS (SPMS) and primary-progressive MS (PPMS) centers on the presence or absence of relapses. SPMS develops in patients who initially had relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) as a secondary phase of that disease course.
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Both MS and ALS are disabling. ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease) and MS (multiple sclerosis) are not the same disease. They sometimes are confused because they have some similarities.
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It is one of the more common symptoms of MS. Spasticity may be as mild as the feeling of tightness of muscles or may be so severe as to produce painful, uncontrollable spasms of extremities, usually of the legs. Spasticity may also produce feelings of pain or tightness in and around joints, and can cause low back pain.
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Scleroses are "scars" such as plaques or lesions in the brain and spinal cord. MS is a progressive disease in which scattered patches of the protective myelin covering of the nerve fibers in the central nervous system (brain and spine) are damaged or destroyed.
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative disease in which axonal loss is the major cause of irreversible neurological disability. Neurological deficits in MS patients are related to inflammatory demyelination and axonal degeneration.
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Multiple sclerosis (MS): While weak reflexes are more common with MS, this condition can lead to severe muscle spasms. During a reflex test, such spasms might occur and lead to a diagnosis of brisk reflexes. With MS, you may have problems with gait and overall movement, too.
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Lyme disease may present itself like multiple sclerosis, but there are distinctive differences. The most important difference is that Lyme is a bacterial infection, but MS is not.
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Specifically, cervical stenosis with myelopathy (CSM) can present with MS-like symptoms including gait ataxia, extremity weakness, spasticity and sensory loss due to spinal cord compression. When the two diseases occur concurrently (Figure), management is exceedingly difficult.
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Clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) is one of the MS disease courses. CIS refers to a first episode of neurologic symptoms that lasts at least 24 hours and is caused by inflammation or demyelination (loss of the myelin that covers the nerve cells) in the central nervous system (CNS).
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NMO usually affects only the optic nerve and spinal cord at the beginning of the disease, although there may be lesions present in other specific areas of the brain. MS typically affects the brain as well as the spinal cord and optic nerve.
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Another key difference is that multiple sclerosis flares occur over several days, whereas stroke symptoms are sudden and severe and can occur within a few minutes. If your symptoms then appear with full force, it is very likely that you are having a stroke as opposed to a multiple sclerosis flare.
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What is primary-progressive MS? PPMS is one of the rarest types of MS, affecting about 15 percent of everyone diagnosed with the condition. While other MS types are characterized by acute attacks, called relapses, followed by periods of non-activity, called remission, PPMS causes gradually worsening symptoms.
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The difference between the two is subtle, but crucial nonetheless. Indeed, the Special Olympics is for individuals with intellectual disabilities, whereas the Paralympics is generally for athletes with any disability, including physical, and only at an elite level.