Background
1: The history of Multiple Sclerosis
2: Multiple Sclerosis pathology
3: Immunology of Multiple Sclerosis
4: Multiple Sclerosis definitions and disease classification
5: Epidemiology of Multiple Sclerosis
6: Genetics of Multiple Sclerosis
7: Measuring Multiple Sclerosis
8: Frequently used assessment scales
9: How to measure treatment effectiveness
10: How to determine whether treatments are effective
The diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis
11: General points on making a diagnosis
12: Sites of Multiple Sclerosis attack and clinically isolated
syndromes
13: Investigation for possible Multiple Sclerosis
14: Conveying the diagnosis
Treatment Options
15: Treatments that may affect the underlying cause of Multiple
Sclerosis
16: Treatment of relapses
17: Other treatments
Ongoing Management
18: Principles of ongoing management
19: The role of the MS nurse
20: Guided self management
21: Comprehensive assessment of needs
22: A multidisciplinary team approach to management
23: Providing ongoing support
24: Rehabilitation concepts and principles
25: Approaches to rehabilitation
26: Models of care and organisation of delivery
27: Specialist regional services
28: Local services
29: Long-term support
30: Symptomatic management
31: Psychosocial issues
32: Complementary and alternative therapies
33: Mobility issues
34: Assistive aids and equipment, adaptations and personal
support
35: Evaluation of services
36: Integrated care pathways
37: Core competencies of staff
38: Other useful resources
Professor John Zajicek trained in Cambridge and London and has
spent more than 20 years researching MS and looking after people
who have it. He is currently working in the Peninsula Medical
School in Plymouth, and leads a large research team that conducts
research into clinical trials for people with MS, with a particular
focus on the uses of cannabis derived medicines, and research into
the mechanisms of MS.
Professor Zajicek is on the MS Guidelines Committee of the
Association of British Neurologists, and has advised NICE on
aspects of MS. Mrs. Bernadette Porter has been trained at South
Bank University, Tor and South West College, and The National
Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, and is a
registered nurse in Ireland. Mrs. Porter has been a lecturer at
many colleges on the subject of Multiple Sclerosis, and has been
published numerous times on the subject.She is Inaugral Chair
of
the UK MS Specialist Nurse Association, and nurse advisor to
multiple institutes, including The Royal College of Nursing. Mrs.
Porter is also the Key Note address to a select committee at the
Hoses of
Parliament. Mrs Porter has been awarded many accolades throughout
her career, including The UK MS Scoiety Measuring Success Award:
Team award for diagnostic services, 1st prize in 2000. Dr. Jenny
Freeman trained in Physiotherapy at Curtin University in Western
Australia in 1983. She specialised in adult neurology, working at
the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London from
1988 - 1998. She completed her PhD evaluating the effectiveness of
rehabilitation in people with Multiple
Sclerosis and the evaluation of outcome measurement instruments.
She now works at the Faculty of Health and Social Work in Plymouth
University. Dr. Freeman is also an Honorary Lecturer at the
Institute
of Neurology and is the Physiotherapy Advisor to the Multiple
Sclerosis Society.
If you are looking for a single compact volume on MS care, this book would be a good choice, and it can be read as a refresher, or used as a reference guide. Advances in Clinical Neuroscience & Rehabilitation This is an excellent pocket guide to MS, whose value is enhanced by having a multidisciplinary authorship. British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine Newsletter, October 2007 ...it is packed with the answers to questions ... 'MS Care' is an excellent book and should be read by neurologists, rehab doctors, GPs, nurses, managers and people with MS.
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