Amyotrophic Lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a severe rare disease affecting nerves connecting the brain to the muscles. In this disease the affected nerve cells fail to maintain the vital communication between the brain and the voluntary muscles, therefore, the muscles gradually weaken, start to twitch and waste away (atrophy) and eventually become totally disabled.
For supporting the ALS affected patients and their families the Help ALS Group was formed in winter 2012 with cooperation and participation of a number of patients, their families and other interested parties and the procedure for registration of the ALS Society are going to be completed in a record time.