During an acute phase of Amyotrophy, my legs,buttocks, especially quadraceps got small and I was walking on a walker. Now they are as a group stronger enough to allow free walking. I have also gained weight back that was lost but feel that the muscles are bigger than they were at my weakest. I feel that they(muscles)are smaller than originally but the strength is still not back to 100% either. I feel that my strenght may never come back to 100%. I suppose we fight to get what we can and make do with what we end up with. Good Luck, Ken in Texas.[/QUOTE]

Thanks Ken, can I ask whether you have sfn in the areas where you feel the amyotrophy hit most.
You have always advocated using an excercise bike daily - do you believe it was targeted excercise that helped regain some strength / mass in the affected areas?