ptich
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write, while I agree that "Kris-Concrete" has nothing even close to ALS, I don't understand your statement that head trauma cannot cause (or I would rather say trigger) ALS. Quite a few diagnoseded folks on this forum mentioned that their ALS symptoms started after they hit their head. It looks like head injury may trigger ALS, or speed up its progression.
Of course not every head injury (or not even one of a hundred) would trigger ALS, so your argument that "how many people would have ALS if there was indeed a correlation" does not work. But reverse correlation may be true - apparently many ALS cases had most of the symptoms manifestating after a head injury.
Of course not every head injury (or not even one of a hundred) would trigger ALS, so your argument that "how many people would have ALS if there was indeed a correlation" does not work. But reverse correlation may be true - apparently many ALS cases had most of the symptoms manifestating after a head injury.