I’ve tried yoga to help with my balance and flexibility and found it useful. But tai chi scares me a little — it seems too difficult. Maybe, if the results of this study are very positive, I’ll be encouraged to give it a try. Perhaps you will, too.
A pilot study has been launched to assess the immediate and enduring benefits of tai chi and mindfulness meditation on the physical balance and mental wellness of people with multiple sclerosis (MS).
This community-based study — currently enrolling participants — is being conducted by the Motor Control Lab, directed by Richard van Emmerik, PhD, professor of kinesiology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The project was awarded a $54,972 one-year grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
The side effects being reviewed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) were reported in an advisory from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last November. The EMA goes further by restricting cases in which patients are eligible to use Lemtrada (alemtuzumab) until it completes its safety review.
As a preventative measure, during the review process, access to Lemtrada by new patients will be restricted to those who continue to experience flare-ups despite having received treatment with at least two prior disease-modifying therapies, or who are ineligible to be treated with other disease-modifying agents.
Precision, or personalized, medicine is an approach that allows doctors to select treatments that are most likely to help patients based on a genetic understanding of their disease. This study will collect genetic data from about 3,000 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients to try to bring this approach to treatment of the illness.
Can a digital, self-guided, internet-based training program help people overcome MS-related depression? This study is enrolling about 400 adults with symptoms of depression to try to find out.
A clinical trial testing a computer program called Deprexis as a home-based therapeutic strategy for multiple sclerosis (MS)-related depression is enrolling participants with all types of MS at three sites in the United States and two in Germany.
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Diagnosed with MS at age 32 in 1980, Ed has written the “MS Wire” column for Multiple Sclerosis News Today since August 2016. He presents timely information on MS, blended with personal experiences. Before retiring from full-time work in 2012, Tobias spent more than four decades in broadcast and on-line newsrooms as a manager, reporter, and radio news anchor. He’s won several national broadcast awards. As an MS patient communicator, Ed consults with healthcare and social media companies. He’s the author of “We’re Not Drunk, We Have MS: A tool kit for people living with multiple sclerosis.” Ed and his wife split time between the Washington, D.C. suburbs and Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Diagnosed with MS at age 32 in 1980, Ed has written the “MS Wire” column for Multiple Sclerosis News Today since August 2016. He presents timely information on MS, blended with personal experiences. Before retiring from full-time work in 2012, Tobias spent more than four decades in broadcast and on-line newsrooms as a manager, reporter, and radio news anchor. He’s won several national broadcast awards. As an MS patient communicator, Ed consults with healthcare and social media companies. He’s the author of “We’re Not Drunk, We Have MS: A tool kit for people living with multiple sclerosis.” Ed and his wife split time between the Washington, D.C. suburbs and Florida’s Gulf Coast.
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Darlene McCarthy says:
I haven’t tried Tai Chi but I do Qi Gong and mediate. I find that these practices improve my flexibility and stamina as well as provide me with peace of mind.
I haven’t tried Tai Chi but I do Qi Gong and mediate. I find that these practices improve my flexibility and stamina as well as provide me with peace of mind.