Where there any cases with cured ALS patients?

My uncle has ALS and I don't really know much about ALS. If someone could tell me a little bit about the disease and if it is curable, that would be cool. I know that he won't survive forever, but I just wanted to know if there is a cure, or if there have been any patients who have gotten over the disease. :/Where there any cases with cured ALS patients?
I'm very sorry your uncle is sick with ALS. It is a degenerative neurological disorder and there is no cure and no one has survived it. It is progressive and patients lose the ability to move,swallow, breath, they become incontinent, depressed and are totally dependent on others for their care. I wish I could write something positive about it for you but I can't. I want you to visit your uncle soon. I also believe to never give up hope, you never know what can happen tomorrow, take care, DonnaWhere there any cases with cured ALS patients?
What is ALS


Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as ';Lou Gehrig's Disease,'; is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.


A-myo-trophic comes from the Greek language. ';A'; means no or negative. ';Myo'; refers to muscle, and ';Trophic'; means nourishment鈥?quot;No muscle nourishment.'; When a muscle has no nourishment, it ';atrophies'; or wastes away. ';Lateral'; identifies the areas in a person's spinal cord where portions of the nerve cells that signal and control the muscles are located. As this area degenerates it leads to scarring or hardening (';sclerosis';) in the region.





As motor neurons degenerate, they can no longer send impulses to the muscle fibers that normally result in muscle movement. Early symptoms of ALS often include increasing muscle weakness, especially involving the arms and legs, speech, swallowing or breathing. When muscles no longer receive the messages from the motor neurons that they require to function, the muscles begin to atrophy (become smaller). Limbs begin to look ';thinner'; as muscle tissue atrophies.


Although the cause of ALS is not completely understood, the recent years have brought a wealth of new scientific understanding regarding the physiology of this disease.





While there is not a cure or treatment today that halts or reverses ALS, there is one FDA approved drug, riluzole, that modestly slows the progression of ALS as well as several other drugs in clinical trials that hold promise.





Importantly, there are significant devices and therapies that can manage the symptoms of ALS that help people maintain as much independence as possible and prolong survival. It is important to remember that ALS is a quite variable disease; no two people will have the same journey or experiences. There are medically documented cases of people in whom ALS 鈥榖urns out,鈥?stops progressing or progresses at a very slow rate.