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The national multiple sclerosis society provides free publications for people living with ms and others. Useful links and resources to multiple sclerosis websites and organisations who offer information on ms, treatments, recipes, news and retreats. This book would be most useful to general neurologists and neurology residents, as they would be most likely to care for patients with progressive multiple sclerosis. One of the things i most liked about this book was precisely that it is short short and to the point.
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Cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis dana foundation. Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that may result in a wide range of neurological symptoms and accumulating disability. Progressive multiple sclerosis pms is a clinical form of ms characterized by gradual accrual of disability independent of relapses over time. Progressive multiple sclerosis ms is defined as a gradual accumulation of clinical disability and neurological damage, although the exact definition and. Retinal axonal loss begins early in the course of multiple sclerosis and is similar between progressive phenotypes.
Multiple sclerosis etiology, diagnosis, and new treatment. Wahls own quest to treat the debilitating symptoms she experiences as a sufferer of progressive ms. Iain watson was diagnosed with slow progressive multiple sclerosis around 30 years ago and is now con. Doctors have been using naltrexone since the 80s with aids patients and other autoimmune diseases. Many of these resources are also listed in our catalog of informational resources. While wahls says that the book is intended for a very broad audience, including those with most forms of autoimmune diseases and even just those looking to lose weight and get healthy, its clear throughout the book that the intended audience for the book is people with multiple sclerosis who are quite sick.
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