ALS - Part 11 - Client Tracking Table

Nutritional and Alternative Therapies Can Successfully Be Used To Improve ALS Symptoms and Retard Progression of the Disease Process

This paper is in honor of Warren Schaeffer, an exceptional person, adventurous being and a first-class gentleman.

Client Progress Tracking

SYMPTOM	JUNE 2010 (Pre-Therapies)	JULY 2010	AUGUST 2010	SEPT 2010
Walking Stability, Stamina to walk	Dropped left foot, lack of stamina	Stamina comes and goes	No Change	A little weaker, was working overtime and not enough sleep
Standing Stability	No ability to balance, needs to hold on to something to balance	Able to balance for several seconds w/o having to rock; More steady	No Change	No Change
Tremors	Tremors in hands, arms & legs especially when extending them	Tremors are less in strength and dissipate more quickly	Tremors are more subtle; Other people are noticing them less. Parts of the day, can ignore them	About the same although stress makes it noticeably worse
Cramping	Any hyper extension of any limb or yawning causes painful cramping	Can stretch arms and legs w/o pain; Some residual cramping exists but by and large cramping is gone	Same generally, less in intensity	Not a daily occurrence. Usually will happen when yawning
Speech Volume	Comes and goes	Projecting more strongly; Son reported “laugh is back”	Reported sang “Some Enchanted Evening” for co-workers; Still slurs some words; Mind goes faster than he can speak. It takes longer to get hoarse.	No change
Handwriting	Not always legible; Trouble with fine motor coordination. Sons write the bills and he signs them	Can now write out his own bills; More legible	No change	No change
Energy Level	No reserves	Some reserves; Sometimes more energy	No change	No change
Outlook	Depressed	Periods of depression	Getting better but has a lot of issues to deal with	Improving in spite of everything happening in his life
THERAPIES
LED Light	Started, used 7 days		Continued once a week	Continued once a week
Vitamin D	Started 2000 IU daily	Continued	Continued	Continued
Vibrating Plate	Started 4 times a week	Continued	Continued	Continued
NES	Started Protocol	Continued	Continued	Continued
Alfalfa Concentrate	Started	Continued	Continued	Continued
Acupuncture			Started, every other week	Continued
Modified Citrus Pectin		Started	Continued	Continued
Vitamin E with alpha, beta, gamma, delta and tocotrienals			Started	Continued
Ubiquinol CoQ10				Started 4 times per day

Table 1 Client Progress Tracking