Are you a Person living with ALS
Alternative Treatments
Hope is eternal. After a diagnosis of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease), a disease for which there is no known cure, many people will search for any information that can keep their hope alive. Many will look to alternative treatments to minimize the devastation that they are feeling.
The ALS Society of Canada has a policy around alternative treatments which clearly states that the society will assume no responsibility for treatments undertaken by a client without approval by a physician.
As a unit of the ALS Society of Canada, we must adhere to this policy. However, ALS Society of Manitoba is interested in knowing what some of the “alternative treatments” being tried are, and whether clients feel that these treatments have been successful. We would like to gather this information and compile it so that all clients may have access to it. It is the choice of each client whether to pursue any of these treatments.
Many of our clients here in Manitoba have indicated that this kind of information would be helpful—recognizing that there is no known cure at this time, and also that medications that may help can be costly and are often not on the “approved” lists of many insurance companies.
E-mail us at info@alsmb.ca to add information to our listing, or with any comments on this subject.