Senators assistant coach Bob Jones identified with ALS

Ottawa Senators assistant coach Bob Jones has been identified with ALS, the crew introduced on Tuesday.

“A loyal member of our household, Bob Jones, has been identified with ALS,” Senators common supervisor Pierre Dorion stated in a press release. “Bob and his household’s needs are to take the brave step of constructing his situation public in an effort to drive ALS consciousness as he fights this illness.

“We now have been working internally with Bob and his household as he takes on this problem; whereas Bob will proceed along with his teaching duties, he has the complete help of the group to take any time he wants away from the membership in the course of the season to focus on his well being and his household.”

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Jones, 53, is in his fourth season as an assistant coach with the Senators. He was named to move coach D.J. Smith’s workers on July 5, 2019. A former Soo Greyhound defenceman, he coached within the American Hockey League and the Ontario Hockey League, culminating within the latter with a head-coaching place with the Oshawa Generals.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (also called ALS, Lou Gehrig’s illness, or motor neuron illness), in response to ALS.ca, “is a illness that step by step paralyzes individuals as a result of the mind is now not in a position to talk with the muscle tissues of the physique that we’re usually in a position to transfer at will. Over time, because the muscle tissues of the physique break down, somebody dwelling with ALS will lose the power to stroll, discuss, eat, swallow, and finally breathe.

“ALS is just not contagious. There isn’t a treatment for ALS and few therapy choices for almost all of individuals dwelling with the illness.”