r/ALS

General Information

As of February 8, 2024

Subreddit Name

r/ALS

Title

ALS

Language

en

Public Description

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.

Description

##SUBREDDIT GUIDELINES

First and foremost, this is a support group. We all have been touched in some way by this horrible disease. The aim of this subreddit is to give a commonplace that strangers can band together and help each other. Even if it's just with a simple "hello", or a reaffirmation o...

Subscribers

5,509

Created

May 12, 2012

Type

public

Whitelist Status

N/A

Flags

Restricted Submissions

Community Reviewed

Total Submissions

6,138

Total Comments

38,683

Earliest Submission

May 12, 2012

Earliest Comment

May 12, 2012

Metrics

Activity Over Time

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Comment Flags

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Submission Score Distribution

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Most Distinctive Words

Year

2024

Total Words in Subreddit

1,267,722

Total Words in Reddit

119,924,722,855

Rank↕	Word↕	Occurrences in Subreddit ↕	Total Occurrences ↕	Rate in Subreddit (per 1M words) ↕	Rate in Reddit (per 1M words) ↕	Ratio (Sub Rate / Reddit Rate) ↕
#1	bipap	530	16,427	418.1	0.1	3052.12
#2	mnd	416	20,527	328.1	0.2	1917.13
#3	emg	482	64,891	380.2	0.5	702.66
#4	gleason	122	18,014	96.2	0.2	640.67
#5	ftd	203	31,764	160.1	0.3	604.57
#6	fals	73	16,090	57.6	0.1	429.19
#7	ventilator	175	45,563	138.0	0.4	363.34
#8	slurred	101	29,320	79.7	0.2	325.87
#9	onset	773	231,526	609.8	1.9	315.84
#10	baclofen	82	24,871	64.7	0.2	311.89
#11	hospice	647	206,977	510.4	1.7	295.71
#12	neurologists	100	33,617	78.9	0.3	281.40
#13	reversals	103	34,949	81.2	0.3	278.80
#14	secretions	57	19,563	45.0	0.2	275.63
#15	elevenlabs	45	16,682	35.5	0.1	255.18
#16	anticipatory	45	17,312	35.5	0.1	245.90
#17	caregivers	290	114,411	228.8	1.0	239.78
#18	neuron	148	62,654	116.7	0.5	223.46
#19	caregiving	99	43,514	78.1	0.4	215.22
#20	sclerosis	76	33,814	60.0	0.3	212.62
#21	atrophy	192	86,116	151.5	0.7	210.91
#22	mucinex	36	17,155	28.4	0.1	198.52
#23	neurologist	574	282,364	452.8	2.4	192.30
#24	pals	930	479,328	733.6	4.0	183.54
#25	palliative	105	54,422	82.8	0.5	182.52
#26	alsa	32	17,257	25.2	0.1	175.42
#27	slurring	75	40,450	59.2	0.3	175.40
#28	twitches	129	69,671	101.8	0.6	175.15
#29	pulmonologist	42	23,031	33.1	0.2	172.51
#30	caregiver	463	265,682	365.2	2.2	164.86
#31	twitching	335	199,859	264.3	1.7	158.56
#32	sporadic	163	98,763	128.6	0.8	156.13
#33	umn	31	19,224	24.5	0.2	152.55
#34	als	9,977	6,221,543	7870.0	51.9	151.70
#35	assistive	42	29,093	33.1	0.2	136.57
#36	c9	173	121,170	136.5	1.0	135.06
#37	familial	198	161,067	156.2	1.3	116.29
#38	cals	158	130,091	124.6	1.1	114.89
#39	misdiagnosis	36	29,712	28.4	0.2	114.62
#40	lyme	188	172,163	148.3	1.4	103.30
#41	respiratory	252	235,773	198.8	2.0	101.11
#42	neurology	76	76,851	60.0	0.6	93.55
#43	wheelchair	490	532,053	386.5	4.4	87.12
#44	pneumonia	137	150,873	108.1	1.3	85.90
#45	mutation	222	266,359	175.1	2.2	78.84
#46	conduction	33	40,065	26.0	0.3	77.92
#47	respite	73	89,776	57.6	0.7	76.92
#48	caretakers	46	57,469	36.3	0.5	75.72
#49	niv	106	134,159	83.6	1.1	74.74
#50	disease	2,002	2,543,728	1579.2	21.2	74.45

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