Outcome measures Patients will be evaluated at the beginning of the treatment and every month until the end of the study at 1 year. At each visit, patients will be evaluated using the ALSFRS-R and manual muscle testing (MMT). MMT testing will be performed by means of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Scale. To obtain an estimate of the overall limb muscle strength we will calculate a MRC compound score by adding the MRC scores of eight upper limb muscles and five lower limb muscles for each side and dividing the sum by the number of muscles tested (26 muscles). We will test the following muscles: biceps brachii, deltoid, triceps brachii, extensor carpi radialis , extensor digitorum communis, abductor digiti minimi, abductor pollicis brevis, opponens pollicis, iliopsoas, rectus femoris, tibialis anterior, extensor hallucis longus, gastrocnemius.