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Can strenuous excercise cause or trigger als?
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Not known to do so: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a neurodegenerative disease including that which controls voluntary muscles. There has not been an association with exercise causing nor triggering ALS in its varied forms.
Answered 3/21/2017
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No: Can provoke muscle fasciculations but not the disease
Answered 2/26/2017
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