The symptoms that occur early for MS patients are numbness and tingling in the arms, legs, or anywhere on the body, vision irregularities, fatigue, cognitive impairments, and bladder and bowel problems. MS can cause a lot of different symptoms and therefore it is hard to detect. As already discussed this disease gets it name from scarring or sclerosis on the brain; it also refers to the multiple symptoms it can cause because of the multiple places of the scarred nerve fibers. The main way to diagnose Multiple Sclerosis is to perform tests such as a MRI to scan for lesions on the brain, sampling the CSF to study the antibodies, and deep tendon reflexes that will give a positive result for any neurological condition. As found in our text book, it portrays the problems that can occur when detecting MS. As an athletic trainer you find that most athletes will claim that fatigue is common, whereas sixty percent of MS patients explain that fatigue is the worst symptom of their disease.
