How to maintain — and why you need — a healthy lifestyle when you’re coping with multiple sclerosis. By Connie Brichford Medically reviewed by Cynthia Haines‚ MD Exercise at least two to three times a week‚ eat a well-balanced diet‚ and get plenty of good‚ quality sleep. That advice is true for everyone — but it is particularly important for people living with MS. Tanuja Chitnis‚ MD‚ assistant professor of neurology and director of the Partners Pediatric MS Center at Massachusetts General Hospital
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|Multiple Sclerosis and Living Life. | |[Type the document subtitle] | | | |Multiple sclerosis can be debilitating‚ however there are things that can be done to | |limit the amount of attacks a person may have. | |
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Multiple sclerosis is a chronic‚ progressive‚ degenerative‚ auto immune disorder of the central nervous system characterized by the disseminated demyelination of the nerve fibres in the brain‚ spinal cord‚ and optic nerves (Lewis‚ 2014). The protective covering of the nerves‚ known as myelin‚ is attacked by the disease‚ causing inflammation and damage ("Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada‚" 2015). Myelin is made up of Schwann cells‚ and facilitates the transmission of nerve impulses. According to
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Multiple Sclerosis‚ also referred to as MS‚ affects more than 400‚000 people in the United States and about 2.5 million people around the world. This is a disease that affects the nervous systems and disrupts the communication between the brain and the body. It can affect the immune system and manifest in other sicknesses. To show how one may encounter this disease‚ I’ll use as an example one man in general‚ whose name is Andrew Johnson. At the age of 32 he was diagnosed with Relapsing-Remitting
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nerve cells and fibers that transmit the messages severely impairs the body’s ability to carry out complex function. Once a disruption occurs‚ one may never recover and neurological function will steadily degrade. Multiple Sclerosis is a disease that disrupts this network. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is the most common disabling neurological disease in young adults between 20 and 40 years of age. It is an autoimmune disease‚ meaning that it results from the body’s immune system attacking its own cells.
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Multiple Sclerosis MS s a disease in which the T-Cells of your immune system turn against your body an attack the brain and other healthy tissue. My Mom has MS so I have been hearing about this disease my whole life. Hearing about MS my whole life you would think I would get sick of talking about it‚ but I wanted to this because even if it gets annoying sharing about MS and explaining what it is to my friends‚ it’s important that people know what it is. I know that MS isn’t as bad as Cancer
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Journal Article Critique I chose to read the article‚ “Osteoporosis in multiple sclerosis” written by Andrew P Hearn and Eli Silber. It is an understanding about osteoporosis and the connection it might have with multiple sclerosis (MS) compared to patients that do not have multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disability that affects a great amount of young adults. The longer a person has multiple sclerosis‚ the more the person loses strength in there bones. Osteoporosis occurs
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Case Study on Multiple Sclerosis Carla is a 30 year-old-female college professor who was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. She presents with complaints of diplopia‚ ataxia‚ fatigue‚ muscle spasms‚ and muscle weakness. The patient is married and has 2 children‚ ages 6‚ and 8 years old. Her husband is a pilot for a major airline and is away from home often. The patient says that over the past several months her symptoms have been getting worse requiring that she miss time from
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Running Head: Multiple Sclerosis- Liberation or Decimation? Multiple Sclerosis- Liberation or Decimation? Kaplan College Multiple Sclerosis- Liberation or Decimation? After a long night out in town Alfonso was ready to call it quits. His friends were saying his speech was slurred‚ as expected after a few to many beers. He decided to go home take a shower and get some sleep. One of his friends drove him home as Alfonso mumbled that he could have driven home. Once home Alfonso took a shower
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Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an unpredictable disease that disables the central nervous system including the brain‚ spinal cord‚ and peripheral nervous system. This disease is disabling and emotionally devastating to the person. Ultimately‚ it’s considered an autoimmune disease which means the body’s immune system attacks itself‚ causing damage to the myelin sheath‚ which covers the nerve fibers. This causes problems with the body’s communication between the brain and the nerves in rest of the body
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