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Public awareness of the disease gained prominence upon the diagnosis of baseball player Lou Gehrig, whose name would become an alternative title for the disease. Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, whose ALS was diagnosed in 1963, had the disease for 55 years, the longest recorded time one had the disease. He died at the age of 76 in 2018.
Dwight Edward Clark (January 8, 1957 – June 4, 2018) was an American professional football wide receiver who played for nine seasons with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1979 to 1987. [1] [2] He was a member of San Francisco's first two Super Bowl championship teams.
A typical diagnosis of ALS has primarily been based on the symptoms and signs the physician observes in the patient and a series of tests to rule out other diseases [143] and therefore, prior to the discovery of CTE as a phenomenon in ex-American football players, many CTE cases were diagnosed as ALS.
Dwight Clark, made famous by "The Catch" that beat the Dallas Cowboys in the 1981 NFC Championship Game, died Monday after an extended battle with ALS.
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He was one of three 1964 San Francisco 49ers teammates who died of ALS, a rare ailment with an incidence estimated at 1 per 50,000 individuals in the general population. [3] Others 49ers felled by the terminal disease included contemporaries Bob Waters and Gary Lewis and — a generation later — wide receiver Dwight Clark .
Coming to terms with an ALS diagnosis. Mark first noticed that something wasn’t quite right in 2020. He couldn’t snap his fingers or make a pinching motion with his left hand; he also noticed ...