Abstract

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that lacks effective treatment options for the prevention of progression. Relieving swallowing difficulties, reducing breathing difficulties, and alleviating muscle spasms are essential to improving the quality of life in patients with ALS. Many symptoms can be treated clinically with medication; however, the evidence level of related research is relatively low. Rehabilitation management can aid in improving various functional impairments and enhancing quality of life. This review introduces and describes the relevant evaluations of rehabilitation and nonpharmacological symptomatic treatment methods for functional disorders from the perspectives of motor and nonmotor symptoms. This review may promote the popularization of ALS rehabilitation management and provide an additional reference for ALS treatment.

*Yuetong Shan and Wei Jing contributed equally to this work.

Author Details

Authors

• Yuetong Shan¹*
• Wei Jing¹*
• Haihan Zhang¹
• Yizhou Liu¹
• Shangyu Wei¹
• Feifei Wu²
• Weidong Pan^{1, 3}

Departments

• ¹ Department of Neurology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinses Medicine,
• ² Department of Neurology, Shanghai Pudong New Area Gongli Hospital, and
• ³ Encephalopathy Laboratory, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

Address

Dr. Feifei Wu
Department of Neurology
Shanghai Pudong New Area Gongli Hospital
Shanghai 200135, China
or
Professor Weidong Pan
Department of Neurology
Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai
University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Shanghai 201203, China
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

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