I saw an article in the New York Times the other day that caught my attention. Normally, I don’t pay attention to sports stories but this one is more than a sports story. Besides being a phenomenal baseball player, Lou Gehrig is known for how he died. Gehrig was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a incurable and fatal disease that causes the eventual loss of all voluntary muscle control. It is estimated that around 30,000 in the U.S. have the disease, which tends to strike 40-70 year old men A peer-reviewed paper was published in the Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology suggests people diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s Disease as it has come to be known might have had a concussion or brain trauma instead. The paper doesn’t specifically address Gehrig, but the authors have been interviews Read more…