Multiple Sclerosis News & Information http://www.multiplesclerosishelp.net A central place for news and information about MS. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:23:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Living with Multiple Sclerosis – Diagnosing MS http://www.multiplesclerosishelp.net/living-with-multiple-sclerosis-diagnosing-ms http://www.multiplesclerosishelp.net/living-with-multiple-sclerosis-diagnosing-ms#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:27:11 +0000 admin http://www.multiplesclerosishelp.net/living-with-multiple-sclerosis-diagnosing-ms

I shot this video on my birthday! I wanted to talk about the things you need to do in order to get a diagnosis.

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DIRECT-MS (www.direct-ms.org ) is a federally registered charity which was founded in early 1998 by families affected by MS. The main goal of the charity is to fund research that directly tests the role of nutritional factors in MS. The charity was established because the research efforts of the large MS charities such as Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada (MSSC) and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) are focused on long term research such as genetics and molecular biology. Such topics are only very indirectly related to MS cause and will not provide persons with MS with a practical therapy for slowing or halting MS progression for decades, if ever. Thus little research is being done which will help persons with MS in the near future (5-10 years) and essentially nothing is being done in terms of nutritional factors and MS. Such a situation is not in the best interests of persons with MS and DIRECT-MS hopes to rectify this very unfortunate and potentially very harmful circumstance. nutritional recommendations summary www.direct-ms.org Other interesting related presentations (high resolution slides)can be found at: www.direct-ms.org And also Dr Cordain’s web site: www.thepaleodiet.com There is also a very interesting interview with Dr Loren Cordain by Robert Crayhon: chetday.com

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As a patient advocate for Tysabri, I had my first speech on behalf of Biogen IDEC!

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Living with Multiple Sclerosis and the advanced treatments for this disease.

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At this point I was so emotional! The steroids were leaving my body.

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Relatively new drugs now help some patients, but not others, with the most common form of multiple sclerosis. That may be because patients with the same symptoms experience different types of inflammation, suggests a new study in animals from the University of Michigan. If the differences are found in people, future treatments may be tailored to specific subtypes of the disease. www2.med.umich.edu

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Early Saturday morning 43 local runners gathered at the Rexburg Golf Course to support a local community member whose sister-in-law suffers from Multiple Sclerosis. Reporter Brian Johnson fronted the cold and got the story. After watching the story, if you would like to help support the Sullivans you can contact them at jewelsgrimm@yahoo.com.

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     Mail this post]]>     http://www.multiplesclerosishelp.net/multiple-sclerosis-5k-fundraising-run/feed 0     Occupational Therapy and Multiple Sclerosis http://www.multiplesclerosishelp.net/occupational-therapy-and-multiple-sclerosis http://www.multiplesclerosishelp.net/occupational-therapy-and-multiple-sclerosis#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:20:12 +0000 admin http://www.multiplesclerosishelp.net/?p=736 Occupational therapy remedies should be explored by multiple sclerosis patients. Here is Gary’s story of how it helped him.

    Occupational therapy can help people with multiple sclerosis to live independently

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    DIRECT-MS (www.direct-ms.org ) is a federally registered charity which was founded in early 1998 by families affected by MS. The main goal of the charity is to fund research that directly tests the role of nutritional factors in MS. The charity was established because the research efforts of the large MS charities such as Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada (MSSC) and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) are focused on long term research such as genetics and molecular biology. Such topics are only very indirectly related to MS cause and will not provide persons with MS with a practical therapy for slowing or halting MS progression for decades, if ever. Thus little research is being done which will help persons with MS in the near future (5-10 years) and essentially nothing is being done in terms of nutritional factors and MS. Such a situation is not in the best interests of persons with MS and DIRECT-MS hopes to rectify this very unfortunate and potentially very harmful circumstance. nutritional recommendations summary www.direct-ms.org Other interesting related presentations (high resolution slides)can be found at: www.direct-ms.org And also Dr Cordain’s web site: www.thepaleodiet.com There is also a very interesting interview with Dr Loren Cordain by Robert Crayhon: chetday.com


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