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- A Cyclist's Journey To Her Dreams By : Stacey Moore
There's good news for people who have relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), a chronic, progressive disease that affects up to 400,000 Americans, including at least twice as many women as men-and for those who may get it someday. Up until a few years ago, there were no medications approved to manage MS, but today there are several.
The disease is characterized by periods of impaired neurological function (including blurred vision and loss of motor skills) that can ultimately lead to permanent disability. New medications offer hope to people such as Eve Steiner. - Defining and describing multiple sclerosis By : Grojan Fabiola
Using medical terms we can say that multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disorder that affects the central nervous system, meaning the brain and the spinal cord. - Diagnosing multiple sclerosis By : Grojan Fabiola
Multiple sclerosis is an inflammation of your central part of the nervous system. To proper diagnose multiple sclerosis, the doctor has to find lesions in this part of your nervous system. Furthermore, those lesions must be disseminated in space as well as in time in order for you to be diagnose with multiple sclerosis. This means that the lesions of multiple sclerosis must happen in different areas of your nervous system, the central part and they also have to have three months apart. This is the only way that the doctor will be able to diagnose you with multiple sclerosis. - Drug treatments for multiple sclerosis patients By : Grojan Fabiola
Studies have shown that multiple sclerosis is very hard on people affecting some 2 in every 1000 persons. Even more problematic is the fact that some 50 % of these people are left unable to walk after some 15 from the onset of the disorder. A total cure has not yet been developed but scientists and doctors are working on treatments that will at least slow down the action of the disease. The good thing is that they really are starting to understand how the disorder works and the way it affects people, plus a new kind of monitor treatment is being developed as we speak. The bases for some new treatments have this way been developed; they include the using of disease modifying drugs that will have quite a remarkable impact on the natural course of the disease, significantly slowing it down. - Drugs that can change the course of your multiple sclerosis By : Grojan Fabiola
There are many drugs available today that can change the course of your illness, including drugs for multiple sclerosis. These drugs can help reduce the symptoms that you have. The best thing about them is that they can also reduce the number of attacks that you have and also the severity of these attacks. This is true for multiple sclerosis as well. For some disease drugs that have steroids are necessary. This is not the case for multiple sclerosis. - How to evaluate your state of health if multiple sclerosis is suspected? By : Grojan Fabiola
Certain things may make a person ask her self if she is starting to suffer from multiple sclerosis. If a person has a blurry vision or has maybe trouble concentrating that doesn’t necessarily mean that she or he are suffering from this terrible disorder. Something else may to blame for a whole other reason. It’s a well known fact that multiple sclerosis has a lot of symptoms similar to a lot of other disorders of the central nervous system. Still, as said earlier, if any signs of the disease appear in any person, checking with the doctor should be the next thing to do. Early diagnosing of the disorder and early treatment has shown to greatly improve the slowing of the rate of witch the disease progresses. - Living With Multiple Sclerosis: A Family Affair By : Stacey Moore
Paula Gaedtke, mother of two young children, had been the "busiest and healthiest" she had ever been, finding time and energy for regular exercise, family activities, recreational softball and performing as a clown, all while dedicating 45 - 50 hours a week to her career as an information technology professional. But then in 1997, Paula's life - and her entire family's - was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with a relapsing form of multiple sclerosis (MS) after problems with her vision and balance. Since then, Paula, now age 40, has slowed down her hectic life and has leaned on her husband and their children for physical and emotional support.
MS is a chronic, progressive disease of the central nervous system that affects an estimated 400,000 Americans and close to 2.5 million individuals worldwide, according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The onset of MS usually occurs between 20 and 40 years of age, and is twice as common in women than in men. - Multiple sclerosis By : Grojan Fabiola
Multiple sclerosis is a rather unknown disease, because it does not affect many people. However, multiple sclerosis is a very hard medical condition. The reason is because when you suffer from multiple sclerosis, the patches of myelin or the fibres of your nerves are damaged. Multiple sclerosis affects the nerves of your eyes, spinal cord or brain. - Multiple Sclerosis - Causes, Symptoms And Treatment By : Ashu
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, progressive, degenerative disorder that affects nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord. A fatty substance surrounds and insulates nerve fibers and facilitates the conduction of nerve impulse transmissions. In MS, inflammation causes the myelin to degenerate and eventually disappear. Consequently, the electrical impulses that travel along the nerves decelerate. Multiple sclerosis is unpredictable and varies in severity. In some people, multiple sclerosis is a mild illness, but it can lead to permanent disability in others. MS is two to three times as common in females as in males and its occurrence is unusual before adolescence.
About 250,000 to 350,000 people in the U.S. have MS. Usually, a patient is diagnosed with MS between 20 and 40 years of age, but MS has been diagnosed as early as age 15 and as late as age 60. - Multiple sclerosis fact sheet By : Grojan Fabiola
Multiple sclerosis is a very serious and hard condition because it affects nerves. Multiple sclerosis is a disease that " attacks" the nerves fund un your spinal cord or your brain. Because of this, you will suffer from problems with controlling your muscles, vision and your balance. This is what multiple sclerosis patients have to deal with. There are not may people who suffer from multiple sclerosis, but those who do have to put up with a lot. Multiple sclerosis is a disease that affects mainly young people, starting from their 20' s. Furthermore, studies have shown that women are more likely to develop multiple sclerosis than men. - Multiple Sclerosis Treatment And Prevention By : Juliet Cohen
Multiple Sclerosis(MS)also known as disseminated sclerosis or encephalomyelitis disseminata is a chronic, inflammatory, demyelinating disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). Multiple sclerosis affects neurons, the cells of the brain and spinal cord that carry information, create thought and perception, and allow the brain to control the body. Surrounding and protecting some of these neurons is a fatty layer known as the myelin sheath, which helps neurons carry electrical signals. MS causes gradual destruction of myelin (demyelination) and transection of neuron axons in patches throughout the brain and spinal cord. The name multiple sclerosis refers to the multiple scars (or scleroses) on the myelin sheaths. This scarring causes symptoms which vary widely depending upon which signals are interrupted. Multiple sclerosis (MS) usually affects woman more than men. The disorder most commonly begins between ages 20 and 40, but can strike at any age. People with a family history of MS and those who live in a geographical area with a higher incidence rate for MS have a higher risk of the disease. - Multiple Sclerosis Treatment And Prevention By : Juliet Cohen
Multiple Sclerosis(MS)also known as disseminated sclerosis or encephalomyelitis disseminata is a chronic, inflammatory, demyelinating disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). Multiple sclerosis affects neurons, the cells of the brain and spinal cord that carry information, create thought and perception, and allow the brain to control the body. Surrounding and protecting some of these neurons is a fatty layer known as the myelin sheath, which helps neurons carry electrical signals. MS causes gradual destruction of myelin (demyelination) and transection of neuron axons in patches throughout the brain and spinal cord. The name multiple sclerosis refers to the multiple scars (or scleroses) on the myelin sheaths. This scarring causes symptoms which vary widely depending upon which signals are interrupted. Multiple sclerosis (MS) usually affects woman more than men. The disorder most commonly begins between ages 20 and 40, but can strike at any age. People with a family history of MS and those who live in a geographical area with a higher incidence rate for MS have a higher risk of the disease. - Multiple Sclerosis- What Is It? By : Smgenie
Multiple Sclerosis- what is it?
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (CNS) where the body's own immune cells attack the nervous system. In Multiple Sclerosis, inflammation of nervous tissue causes the loss of myelin, a fatty material that acts as a sort of protective insulation for the nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord. This demyelination leaves multiple areas of scar tissue (sclerosis) along the covering of the nerve cells, which disrupts the ability of the nerves to conduct electrical impulses to and from the brain, producing the various symptoms of multiple Sclerosis. - Signs And Symptoms Of Alzheimer’s Disease By : Connie Limon
One of the most common causes for dementia is Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is the loss of intellectual and social abilities severe enough to interfere with daily functioning. The dementia is caused when healthy brain tissue degenerates. Memory and mental abilities steadily decline. - Symptoms for multiple sclerosis By : Grojan Fabiola
As in other illnesses and diseases one can tell if someone has disorders by analyzing that person to see if certain symptoms are present. Finding and identifying the symptoms can be quite tricky sometimes. First of all not all the people come down with the same symptoms and on top of that is the fact that some of the symptoms that the patient may be experiencing are possible to be mimicking the symptoms from other diseases. If a person has one or a few symptoms related to the ones for multiple sclerosis it doesn’t necessarily mean that the individual has the disorder. - The Image Of Ms By : Wade Gibson
What does multiple sclerosis (MS) look like? The answer is not simple. However, a new photo exhibit is challenging public perceptions about MS, and helping put the disease in focus. In doing so, the exhibit is meant to encourage those with symptoms of MS to seek early diagnosis and treatment. - Treating multiple sclerosis By : Grojan Fabiola
Modern technology and skillful doctors have come up with several treatments to help patients suffering from multiple sclerosis. In order to properly treat the disorder a good diagnosis must be put, and that little fact can prove to be a bit tricky some times. Magnetic resonance imaging has helped doctors and scientists both in giving the best diagnosis and also in understanding how the disease starts and progresses through the human body. Frequent relapses may cause serious problems on the patient; this way new lesions appear after each episode further increasing the focal brake down of the blood-brain barrier. Also magnetic resonance helps doctors allot with prognosis and therapy. - Understand Multiple Sclerosis To Fight It By : Jon Arnold
Most people do not realize how wide-spread the affliction of multiple sclerosis is in today’s world. It affects tens of thousands of people, but it is one of those diseases where a very mild form of it could almost go unnoticed by the general public, and allow the patient to live a pretty normal day to day life. But for others, the effects of multiple sclerosis can be harsh.
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