I have an article to share with you.  It’s an article in MS in focus which is from MS international federation in Cambridge, UK.  The article is about ataxia and tremors in MS.  I will be honest with you - my personal main focus is on ataxia.  I don’t know what it is so I am researching it for information. I finding out we all have experienced ataxia one time or another.  However, I didn’t call my “drunken” gait as ataxia.  In 1868 Jean-Martin Charcot indicated that the tremors and ataxia were different than those found with Parkinson patients.

Almost everyone with diagnosed multiple sclerosis have had moving coordination difficulties progress and yet we all know MS is not the same for every one.  People with ataxia lose control over their movements so they become less smooth. It becomes hard to start a movement and hard to stop that movement.  It becomes obvious when one wishes to use skilled movements of limbs.  How has your typing been since MS set in or how has your penmanship progressed through the start of MS to what it now?

Over the years, research studies showed that disability from ataxia in MS is related to damage to the cerebellum.  The network of the cerebellum and its connections is a widespread network encompassing the cerebellum, the spinal cord and other regions in the brain.  If MS damages any of these components is to be expected because these areas are easily damaged.  Symptoms of ataxia and tremor can cause much disability and remain the biggest challenge.