May 31, 2017 Columns by Mike Knight How Pilates Changed My Life…And My MS, Part Two: Mariska Breland Practices What She Teaches Like so many people with MS, Mariska Breland remembers the disease’s onset as a combination of strange, seemingly disparate maladies that included tingling in her left thigh, numb feet, skin that felt “too thick” around her toes, foot drop, and double vision. One left her…
May 3, 2017 Columns by Mike Knight How Pilates Changed My Life … and My MS, Part One: Take No Prisoner Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series about Pilates and MS. When I was diagnosed with MS in December 2013, my most visible symptom was a waltzing shuffle that was slowly changing my once-purposeful gait into a wobble (leading some co-workers to believe…
April 19, 2017 Columns by Mike Knight Getting a Second Opinion: Three Heads — or More — are Better Than Two It was my 2015 annual check-in, and my neurologist and I were in the exam room. I was sitting on one of those little stools with wheels, he was leaning across the exam table. We had just finished discussing my steadily worsening symptoms and treatment plan, which consisted…
April 5, 2017 Columns by Mike Knight Going All In for Ocrevus — Together “Is the MS drug news good for u?” my friend’s text asked. It was Wednesday morning, March 29. Genentech had just announced that Ocrevus, the “First and only approved disease-modifying therapy for primary progressive form of multiple sclerosis (PPMS) – one of the most disabling forms of…
