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Other manifestations and symptoms of multiple sclerosis

The focuses of multiple sclerosis can be located in any area of the central and peripheral nervous system, so sclerosis symptoms may be quite different, and individually matched for each patient. But there are manifestations of the disease, which can be observed most often:
1. Sensitive violations: tingling sensation or numbness in hands, feet or one [...]

What is multiple sclerosis?

Multiple sclerosis – a chronic demyelinating disease, characterized by signs of nervous system lesions, proceeds with exacerbation and remission. As nosological form it was first described by Jean Charcot in 1866.

How often, when and who suffers most of all from sclerosis?

Multiple sclerosis is the third frequent disease (exceeded only by twing disease and epilepsy) in neurology. In USA, this disease affects millions of people. The guile of multiple sclerosis is that the bulk of cases occur in the younger generation.
Moreover, in women sclerosis occurs twice more than in men. Before 15 and after 60 years [...]