Some of the neurological diseases are common
causes of disability and death world wide. Among
them, stroke and degenerative diseases are of
importance. But the acute conditions like infection
and vascular phenomenon usually carries good
prognosis whereas chronic illnesses like motor
neuron disease and Parkinson’s disease give rise to
more disability. Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is
one of the commonest causes of acute symmetrical
flaccid paralysis of limbs in much of the world.1,2