Empowering people affected by MS to live their best lives

Strategies for Restoring Function

triggers the immune system to attack the body’s central nervous system. It attacks the myelin sheath that protects nerve fibers, and the nerves themselves are damaged. This damage slows down or even blocks nerve signals from traveling to and from the brain. To reverse this damage, the Restore Pathway focuses on 2 objectives:

Undoing the damage done to the myelin sheath (remyelination)
Restoring function with rehabilitation, or even preventing the loss of function with prehabilitation

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In MS, something in the environment triggers the immune system to attack the body’s central nervous system. It attacks the myelin sheath that protects nerve fibers, and the nerves themselves are damaged. This damage slows down or even blocks nerve signals from traveling to and from the brain. To reverse this damage, the Restore Pathway focuses on 2 objectives:

Undoing the damage done to the myelin sheath (remyelination)
Restoring function with rehabilitation, or even preventing the loss of function with prehabilitation

Undoing the damage done to the myelin sheath (remyelination)
Restoring function with rehabilitation, or even preventing the loss of function with prehabilitation

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Undoing the damage done to the myelin sheath (remyelination)
Restoring function with rehabilitation, or even preventing the loss of function with prehabilitation

Repairing Myelin

Restoring Function

rehabilitation. Prehabilitation, also known as “prehab,” originally referred to a series of exercises to prepare someone’s body for a future stressor, such as surgery. More recently, researchers have been studying its effects on preventing progression and cognitive issues in people with MS.Rehabilitation, or “rehab,” in MS involves strategies to:

Improve or maintain function
Prevent complications
Enhance overall quality of life

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At the same time, researchers are investigating exercises and activities to help people living with MS maintain and recover lost abilities. Studies focus on prehabilitation and rehabilitation. Prehabilitation, also known as “prehab,” originally referred to a series of exercises to prepare someone’s body for a future stressor, such as surgery. More recently, researchers have been studying its effects on preventing progression and cognitive issues in people with MS.Rehabilitation, or “rehab,” in MS involves strategies to:

Improve or maintain function
Prevent complications
Enhance overall quality of life

Improve or maintain function
Prevent complications
Enhance overall quality of life

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Improve or maintain function
Prevent complications
Enhance overall quality of life

Repairing Damage

Researchers are developing strategies to repair the damage done by MS, especially to myelin.

Michelle, diagnosed in 2001

Studying Rehab and Prehab

Other studies focus on strategies to maintain or restore lost function, including prehabilitation and rehabilitation.

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National MS Society-Funded Study Points to Potential New Myelin Repair Strategy

People with MS Twice as Likely to Experience Any Type of Headache, Says New, Small Study

Researchers Join to Pinpoint Key Gene in Myelin Formation

Stem Cells Restore Myelin in Mice

National Multiple Sclerosis Society-Funded Study Connects Energy-Producing Mitochondria to Cell Damage in MS