Health Care : Current Reviews

Patients with MS would benefit from a specific muscular stimulation to slow down the evolution of the pathology

Euro Health Care and Fitness Summit

September 01-03, 2015 Valencia, Spain

Pauline Fontaine

Adaptive HS S.L., Spain

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Health Care: Current Reviews

Abstract:

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is still a mysterious pathology. A lot of investigation is on course, but it Is hard to get to a solid conclusion/ consensus about how people get MS. We have some clues (hygiene, area when you have been raised etc.) but there is still a lot to do. Some medicines do exist now to treat patients. They never cure them, but slow down the evolution of the pathology. Apart from the medication, which is really expensive and not always effective, patients can stimulate themselves cognitively and physically to slow down the evolution of their MS and reduce the frequency of relapses. We have spent 8 months in a center specialized in MS in the Hospital Vall d�??Hebron of Barcelona (Cemcat) and have used the Patient Centered Methodology, based on deep interviews with patients affected with MS. We�??ve seen all types of patients to have a good overview of the situation. I will describe what we discussed with them, our conclusions and which profile of MS patient could benefit a lot of gym training. I�??ll describe how physiotherapists work in Cemcat to maintain the patient active and work on their specific problems (stability problems, muscle weaknesses etc). It is proven that suitable gym training could be a very good way for patients to train their muscles and to delay the moment they will have to use a wheelchair. The trainers should have a specific formation on how to stimulate the patient and which kinds of exercises they have to do with them.

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Email: fontaine.pauline01@gmail.com