Posted in General Information, Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis, Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis, Symptoms • Tags: MS, multiple sclerosis
By Robert Groth
Introduction to Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis is known to affect more than 250,000 people world wide and 400,000+ people in the United States of America alone! This disease affects more women than men, and most people show the first signs of this degenerative disease between 20 to 40 years of ages.
A chronic and potentially incapacitating disease, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) affects the central nervous system or the brain and spinal cord areas in your body. Believed to be an autoimmune disorder, MS is a condition where the patient’s immune system produces antibodies against their own body.
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Posted on December 27, 2007 by HART (1-800-HART) • There are no comments, hop to it!
Posted in Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis, Progressive Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis, Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis • Tags: Primary_Progressive_Multiple_Sclerosis, Progressive_Relapsing_Multiple_Sclerosis, Relapsing_Remitting_Multiple_Sclerosis, Secondary_Progressive_Multiple_Sclerosis
By Michael Russell
In our first article in this series on multiple sclerosis we discussed what the disease itself was. In this articles we’re going to go over the different types of multiple sclerosis.
There are actually four different variations of multiple sclerosis. This was defined by an independent survey of neurologists in 1996.
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Posted on November 30, 2006 by HART (1-800-HART) • There are no comments, hop to it!
