Multiple Scolorais is common disease throughout the world that has affected about 400,000 people in the US and about 2.5 million people around the world (Ann Pietrangelo, Valencia Higuera, 2015). Multiple Scolorais is more common to develop young adulthood, but it can develop at any age. Multiple Scolorais is usually called by the short form “MS.” MS is a long-lasting disease that can affect the brain, spinal cord, and the optic nerves in the eyes (Melinda Ratini, 2014). Since this disease is effecting the brain, spinal cord, and the optic nerves it will cause problems in vision, balance, and muscle control. MS is caused when the immune system attacks a fatty material called myelin, which wraps around nerve fibers to protect them, but since…show more content… It also dependd on which area (nerve fiber) the MS disease has affected. The signs and symptoms for MS are the following: numbness or weakness in the limbs (trouble walking), partial or complete loss of vision (blindness), prolonged double vision, tingling or pain in parts of the body, electric–shock sensations that occur with certain neck movements, lack of coordination, dizziness, fatigue (mental or bodily exertion), muscle weakness, slurred speech, feeling tired, pain, sexual problems, depression, poor bowel or bladder control, problems focusing or remembering (Staff, 2015) (Melinda Ratini, 2014) (Christopher Luzzio, Mark Keegan, 2015).
Pathophysiology
Multiple Scolorais is a progressive (gets worse) inflammatory (autoimmune) demyelating disorder of the Central Nervous System. The pathophysiology of MS is that Oligodendrocytes which are glial cells (glial cells are cells that support the functioning of neurons that exist only in the Central Nervous System) exist only in the Central Nervous System (CNS). Oligodendrocytes have their own cell body and nucleus which allows the extending and wrapping of their cell membrane around the nerve axon (wolf, 2012). The cell membrane wraps plenty of times and wraps so strongly that it squeezes out the cytoplasm. Myelin is layer upon layer
