June 09, '10: Recommendations on Vitamin D use in Multiple Sclerosis
Category: Alternative Therapies
Posted by: stuart
From the Annual meeting of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers
June 2-5, 2010 San Antonio Texas
Information provided by: Cherie C. Binns RN BS MSCN
In a talk given by Alan Bowling, MD PhD of the Colorado Neurological Institute in Englewood, Co, Vitamin D usage in Patients with MS was revisited.
For several years now, it has been felt that Vitamin D has a neuroprotective effect on the Central Nervous System in persons with MS and that most of these people test low or deficient in Vitamin D Levels. Supplementation has been thought to be helpful in protecting against further axonal damage and even potentially prevent relapses. To date, Vitamin D has been believed to be free of major adverse side effects and is safe in even high doses of up to 10,000 IU daily for long periods of time. There is anecdotal evidence that persons with MS (PWMS) report feeling better with a reduction in neurological symptoms while on high doses of this vitamin.
=============================================June 2-5, 2010 San Antonio Texas
Information provided by: Cherie C. Binns RN BS MSCN
In a talk given by Alan Bowling, MD PhD of the Colorado Neurological Institute in Englewood, Co, Vitamin D usage in Patients with MS was revisited.
For several years now, it has been felt that Vitamin D has a neuroprotective effect on the Central Nervous System in persons with MS and that most of these people test low or deficient in Vitamin D Levels. Supplementation has been thought to be helpful in protecting against further axonal damage and even potentially prevent relapses. To date, Vitamin D has been believed to be free of major adverse side effects and is safe in even high doses of up to 10,000 IU daily for long periods of time. There is anecdotal evidence that persons with MS (PWMS) report feeling better with a reduction in neurological symptoms while on high doses of this vitamin.
November 17, '09: Tune Into Music and Tune Out MS
Category: Alternative Therapies
Posted by: stuart
This useful information was provided to me from: Cherie C. Binns RN BS MSCN
Tune Into Music and Tune Out MS
By: Cathy Rivera, MS, MM, MT-BC
Most people can remember a time when hearing music changed their mood or made them forget their pains and troubles. However, present-day music therapy can do much more than provide an emotional uplift. The directed use of music for therapy can produce changes in mind and body that last beyond the therapy session. In addition, music therapy can introduce methods of practicing functional skills in a way that reduces the boredom or frustration that can accompany long-term rehabilitation or adaptation training.
Using music to promote health and healing
Studies conducted at research centers worldwide, aided by recent advances in imaging and scanning technologies, show that music directly stimulates the brain and it can influence many brain-based behaviors, including moving, thinking, and feeling.
Music used to be classified only as a "right-brained" activity – basically an emotional response. We now know that just listening to music stimulates areas in every region of your brain. The simple tap of your foot is evidence of that.
=============================================Tune Into Music and Tune Out MS
By: Cathy Rivera, MS, MM, MT-BC
Most people can remember a time when hearing music changed their mood or made them forget their pains and troubles. However, present-day music therapy can do much more than provide an emotional uplift. The directed use of music for therapy can produce changes in mind and body that last beyond the therapy session. In addition, music therapy can introduce methods of practicing functional skills in a way that reduces the boredom or frustration that can accompany long-term rehabilitation or adaptation training.
Using music to promote health and healing
Studies conducted at research centers worldwide, aided by recent advances in imaging and scanning technologies, show that music directly stimulates the brain and it can influence many brain-based behaviors, including moving, thinking, and feeling.
Music used to be classified only as a "right-brained" activity – basically an emotional response. We now know that just listening to music stimulates areas in every region of your brain. The simple tap of your foot is evidence of that.
October 15, '09: Vitamin "D" and Multiple Sclerosis
Category: Alternative Therapies
Posted by: stuart
Source: Rocky Mountain MS Center - eMS News - October 15, 2009
"You need to get your vitamins…" is a phrase we all likely heard as children, perhaps when we didn’t want to eat the heaping pile of vegetables that had been so generously served to us. Annoying as it may have seemed at the time, certain vitamins may in fact be more important than we previously understood. As MS research continues to expand and move forward, there is growing support that one vitamin in particular, D, plays an important role in the development and progression of MS.
Vitamin D, the main sources of which are exposure to sunlight, milk, cheese, and fish, as well as some juices and cereals, is a fat soluble vitamin. It is biologically inert, which means that upon entering the body, it must be processed in order to become activated. This occurs either in the liver or the kidney. Another important aspect of vitamin D is that it works collaboratively with calcium, and is critical for bone growth and health.
============================================="You need to get your vitamins…" is a phrase we all likely heard as children, perhaps when we didn’t want to eat the heaping pile of vegetables that had been so generously served to us. Annoying as it may have seemed at the time, certain vitamins may in fact be more important than we previously understood. As MS research continues to expand and move forward, there is growing support that one vitamin in particular, D, plays an important role in the development and progression of MS.
Vitamin D, the main sources of which are exposure to sunlight, milk, cheese, and fish, as well as some juices and cereals, is a fat soluble vitamin. It is biologically inert, which means that upon entering the body, it must be processed in order to become activated. This occurs either in the liver or the kidney. Another important aspect of vitamin D is that it works collaboratively with calcium, and is critical for bone growth and health.
June 03, '09: Vitamin-D Levels Inversely Correlated With Disability and Disease Progression in Multiple Sclerosis
Category: Alternative Therapies
Posted by: stuart
Medscape Today
Information provided by Jodi Swanson:
June 2, 2009 (Atlanta, Georgia) — Vitamin-D deficiency may be associated with a higher disability score and increased rate of disease progression for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), new research findings suggest.
Allison Drake, a researcher with the Jacobs Neurological Institute at the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, presented the findings here at the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC) 23rd Annual Meeting.
Vitamin D has been implicated as a risk factor for MS, the investigators note. In addition, preclinical in vivo studies have demonstrated that vitamin D may inhibit experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and prevent disease progression.
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Information provided by Jodi Swanson:
June 2, 2009 (Atlanta, Georgia) — Vitamin-D deficiency may be associated with a higher disability score and increased rate of disease progression for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), new research findings suggest.
Allison Drake, a researcher with the Jacobs Neurological Institute at the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, presented the findings here at the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC) 23rd Annual Meeting.
Vitamin D has been implicated as a risk factor for MS, the investigators note. In addition, preclinical in vivo studies have demonstrated that vitamin D may inhibit experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and prevent disease progression.
Category: Alternative Therapies
Posted by: stuart
Information provided by Karen D. in Coral Springs, Fl.
First published on March 12, 2009
Multiple Sclerosis 2009, doi:10.1177/1352458508101320
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Article
CL Barrett, GE Mann, PN Taylor*, and P Strike
The National Clinical FES Centre, Department of Clinical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP2 8BJ, UK
Abstract
Background
Functional electrical stimulation (FES), is a means of producing a contraction in a paralyzed or weak muscle to enable function through electrical excitation of the innervating nerve.
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Multiple Sclerosis 2009, doi:10.1177/1352458508101320
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Article
A randomized trial to investigate the effects of functional electrical stimulation and therapeutic exercise on walking performance for people with multiple sclerosis
CL Barrett, GE Mann, PN Taylor*, and P Strike
The National Clinical FES Centre, Department of Clinical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP2 8BJ, UK
Abstract
Background
Functional electrical stimulation (FES), is a means of producing a contraction in a paralyzed or weak muscle to enable function through electrical excitation of the innervating nerve.
February 08, '09: How to Treat Multiple Sclerosis with Diet..
Category: Alternative Therapies
Posted by: stuart
Scientists and Patient Share How to Treat Multiple Sclerosis with Diet in Live Tele-seminar
Posted February 7, 2008 --- PR WEB
Loren Cordain, Ph.D., and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patient Rosalie McClung will host a Multiple Sclerosis and Diet teleseminar at 3 pm MST on February 20, 2009 from Fort Collins, CO. These experts will explore connections between diet and MS emphasizing what foods may contribute to this disease, and which foods can slow MS progression and help ameliorate symptoms.
Fort Collins, CO (PRWEB) February 7, 2009 -- Researcher honored for national impact upon complementary medical care joins MS patient who is successfully treating MS with diet to help people reduce their risk of lifestyle-based disease.
Loren Cordain is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles and abstracts. His research appears in the world's top scientific nutrition journals including the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the British Journal of Nutrition, and the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
=============================================Posted February 7, 2008 --- PR WEB
Loren Cordain, Ph.D., and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patient Rosalie McClung will host a Multiple Sclerosis and Diet teleseminar at 3 pm MST on February 20, 2009 from Fort Collins, CO. These experts will explore connections between diet and MS emphasizing what foods may contribute to this disease, and which foods can slow MS progression and help ameliorate symptoms.
Fort Collins, CO (PRWEB) February 7, 2009 -- Researcher honored for national impact upon complementary medical care joins MS patient who is successfully treating MS with diet to help people reduce their risk of lifestyle-based disease.
Loren Cordain is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles and abstracts. His research appears in the world's top scientific nutrition journals including the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the British Journal of Nutrition, and the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
December 17, '08: Decades of Research Packed Into One Powerful Low-Fat Diet Can Provide A Lifetime of Relief - For MS Patients
Category: Alternative Therapies
Posted by: stuart
Provided to Stu's Views and MS News on December 17, 2008
Author: Daryl Clayton Kennedy
Controlling the unpredictable course of disseminated sclerosis or multiple Sclerosis(MS) has been the ambition of physicians and scientist around the world since it's detection as a distinct disease in the mid nineteenth century(1868). In the last hundred some odd years there have been a slue of alternative treatments tested to curve the manifestation of disseminated sclerosis(MS).
Everything From Herbs to Martial Arts Has Been Suggested As an Attempt to Manipulate its Symptoms and Episodes
The most interesting commodity in all alternative treatments is that someone, somewhere at sometime has seen positive effects from their preferred treatment. It may not be the overwhelming majority, although - just knowing these treatments have been successful in either suppressing episodes for extreme periods or conquering the disease by some unforeseen miracle, should give all patients hope!
=============================================Author: Daryl Clayton Kennedy
Controlling the unpredictable course of disseminated sclerosis or multiple Sclerosis(MS) has been the ambition of physicians and scientist around the world since it's detection as a distinct disease in the mid nineteenth century(1868). In the last hundred some odd years there have been a slue of alternative treatments tested to curve the manifestation of disseminated sclerosis(MS).
Everything From Herbs to Martial Arts Has Been Suggested As an Attempt to Manipulate its Symptoms and Episodes
The most interesting commodity in all alternative treatments is that someone, somewhere at sometime has seen positive effects from their preferred treatment. It may not be the overwhelming majority, although - just knowing these treatments have been successful in either suppressing episodes for extreme periods or conquering the disease by some unforeseen miracle, should give all patients hope!
December 15, '08: MS Related: NJ soon to vote to legalize Medical Marijuana
Category: Alternative Therapies
Posted by: stuart
New Jersey Senate committee to consider legalizing medical marijuana
By BEN LEACH Staff Writer, 609-272-7261
Published: Monday, December 15, 2008
A state Senate committee will discuss legislation today that would make New Jersey the 14th state to legalize marijuana for medical purposes.
If Senate Bill 119 eventually is signed into law, patients with debilitating illnesses, including cancer, AIDS, glaucoma and multiple sclerosis, would have access to marijuana to relieve their pain if prescribed by a doctor.
The bill is sponsored by state Sens. Nicholas P. Scutari, D-Union, Somerset, Middlesex, and Jim Whelan, D-Atlantic.
The legalization of marijuana - considered the single most abused illicit drug in the United States by the National Institute on Drug Abuse - for medicinal purposes already has happened in 13 other states, most recently Michigan.
Jim Miller, president of the Coalition for Medical Marijuana New Jersey, has fought tirelessly for marijuana legalization. His wife, Cheryl, lived with multiple sclerosis, a potentially debilitating disease that blocks the brain from communicating with other parts of the body, for 32 years before dying in 2003 at age 57.
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Published: Monday, December 15, 2008
A state Senate committee will discuss legislation today that would make New Jersey the 14th state to legalize marijuana for medical purposes.
If Senate Bill 119 eventually is signed into law, patients with debilitating illnesses, including cancer, AIDS, glaucoma and multiple sclerosis, would have access to marijuana to relieve their pain if prescribed by a doctor.
The bill is sponsored by state Sens. Nicholas P. Scutari, D-Union, Somerset, Middlesex, and Jim Whelan, D-Atlantic.
The legalization of marijuana - considered the single most abused illicit drug in the United States by the National Institute on Drug Abuse - for medicinal purposes already has happened in 13 other states, most recently Michigan.
Jim Miller, president of the Coalition for Medical Marijuana New Jersey, has fought tirelessly for marijuana legalization. His wife, Cheryl, lived with multiple sclerosis, a potentially debilitating disease that blocks the brain from communicating with other parts of the body, for 32 years before dying in 2003 at age 57.
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November 11, '08: "Sativex" - Many have asked and here is what it's about
Category: Alternative Therapies
Posted by: stuart
Sativex is an oromucosal (mouth) spray developed by the UK company GW Pharmaceuticals for multiple sclerosis patients, who can use it to alleviate neuropathic pain and spasticity. Sativex is distinct from all other pharmaceutically produced cannabinoids currently available because it is derived from botanical material, rather than a solely synthetic process. Sativex is a pharmaceutical product standardised in composition, formulation, and dose. Its principal active cannabinoid components are the cannabinoids: tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). The product is formulated as an oromucosal spray which is administered by spraying into the mouth. Each spray of Sativex delivers a fixed dose of 2.7mg THC and 2.5mg CBD.
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November 11, '08: Psychopathological and Cognitive Effects of Therapeutic Cannabinoids in Multiple Sclerosis
Category: Alternative Therapies
Posted by: stuart
1: Clin Neuropharmacol. 2008 Oct 23. [Epub ahead of print]
Psychopathological and Cognitive Effects of Therapeutic Cannabinoids in Multiple Sclerosis: A Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled, Crossover Study
.Aragona M, Onesti E, Tomassini V, Conte A, Gupta S, Gilio F, Pantano P, Pozzilli C, Inghilleri M.
*Chair of Philosophy of Psychopathology, "Sapienza" University; daggerDivision of Neurology, Neurological Centre of Latium; double daggerDepartment of Neurological Sciences, "Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy; and section signDepartment of Radiology, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY.
OBJECTIVES:: To study possible psychopathological symptoms and cognitive deficits, abuse induction, as well as general tolerability and effects on quality of life, fatigue and motor function in cannabis-naďve patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) treated with a free-dose cannabis plant extract (Sativex).
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Psychopathological and Cognitive Effects of Therapeutic Cannabinoids in Multiple Sclerosis: A Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled, Crossover Study
.Aragona M, Onesti E, Tomassini V, Conte A, Gupta S, Gilio F, Pantano P, Pozzilli C, Inghilleri M.
*Chair of Philosophy of Psychopathology, "Sapienza" University; daggerDivision of Neurology, Neurological Centre of Latium; double daggerDepartment of Neurological Sciences, "Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy; and section signDepartment of Radiology, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY.
OBJECTIVES:: To study possible psychopathological symptoms and cognitive deficits, abuse induction, as well as general tolerability and effects on quality of life, fatigue and motor function in cannabis-naďve patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) treated with a free-dose cannabis plant extract (Sativex).
