Multiple Sclerosis

Nerves

100

What is the Protective Layer of Nerves?

What is the Myelin Sheath

200

What is the Central Nervous System composed of?

What are the Brain and Spinal Chord

300

Inflammation of the Nerves  is called?

What is Neuritis

400

The part of the the brain responsible for smooth coordinated movement is called.

What is the cerebellum.

500

A medical  diagnostic test to evaluate the function of motor and sensory nerves is called...

What is a nerve conduction study.

MS Drugs

100

An interferon drug mimics the natural defense property in the body to fight what type of common invaders?

What are Viruses?

200

Corticosteroids are ant-inflammatory drugs used to suppress...

What is an MS Relapse.

300

All MS medication serves to prevent ...

What are Further Lesions

400

All treatments have both potential benefits as well as

What are risk factors.

500

Absence of symptoms does not always mean absence of...

What is disease progression.

Types of MS

100

This type of MS is characterized by periods of stability in between relapses. Relapses are episodes of new or worsening symptoms not caused by fever or infection and that last more than 48 hours.

What is Relapsing Remitting MS.

200

 This a type of MS involves a gradual onset from the beginning and has no attacks.

What is Primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS).

300

 The term describes people with multiple sclerosis (MS) who find that they are gradually worsening over time. These people previously had relapsing-remitting MS but are gradually changing in between attacks.

What is Secondary progressive multiple sclerosis.  (SPMS)

400

Most people with multiple sclerosis -- around 85% -- have this type.

What is Relapsing Remitting MS.

500

One of the MS disease courses. CIS refers to a first episode of neurologic symptoms that lasts at least 24 hours and is caused by inflammation or demyelination (loss of the myelin that covers the nerve cells) in the central nervous system

What is Clinically Isolated Syndrome

Stress Reduction

100

True or False:   Playing Sudoku, solitaire, and arcade games are stress relieving.

True

200

Which of the following is not a way to reduce stress? a.    Exercise b.    Meditation c.    Deep breathing 

d.   None of the above

What is None of the above

300

List 3 positive coping mechanisms that help reduce stress.(there are more than three)

•    Listening to music •    Playing with a pet •    Laughing or crying •    Going out with a friend (shopping, movie, dining) •    Taking a bath or shower •    Writing, painting, or other creative activity •    Praying or going to church •    Exercising or getting outdoors to enjoy nature •    Discussing situations with a spouse or close friend •    Gardening or making home repairs •    Practicing deep breathing, meditation, or muscle relaxation

400

True or False:   Managing stress is taking care of your thoughts, your emotions, your schedule, your environment, and the way you deal with problems.

What is True!

 

500

What are 3 positive stressors? (there are more than three)

•    Meeting or engaging in a challenge. •    Coming in first place in a race. •    Getting a promotion at your job. •    Watching a suspenseful or scary movie. •    Love, marriage, or childbirth. •    Riding a roller coaster. •    The holidays. •    Engaging in exercise, especially weight training.

Coping Strategies

100

Is over heating a concern in MS symptom management  for most individuals with MS? 

Yes or No?

What is YES.

 In 60-80 percent of people with MS, it contributes to the symptom of fatigue. Cooling rags, like bandannas, on the back of the neck, Stay in cool areas when it’s warm outside. Drink at least 25 percent of your body weight in water daily.

200

How to combat depression

 Planning to social opportunities

300

Getting Good nutrition is good for over all health.

True or False?

True. Changing our diet works in two ways to impact MS: directly, via the nutrients we absorb, and indirectly, via changes to our microbiota, the community of gut bacteria that influences our immune system as well as brain signals. We help shape our microbiota by the foods we eat. “We think certain dietary patterns may help by decreasing inflammation, supporting myelin, and protecting and nurturing brain cells through these signaling pathways,” Dr. Katz Sand says.

Research has been conducted on two dietary supplements with mixed results:

• Vitamin D: A 2015 study in the European Journal of Neurology suggests that low levels of vitamin D are a risk factor for developing MS, and taking vitamin D may help protect neurons and repair myelin.
• Biotin, a form of vitamin B: In a 2015 study in the journal Neurology, high-dose biotin improved disability in some 12 percent of participants with MS, likely because it contains an enzyme that’s key to activating myelin synthesis.

400

Emotional well-being: Depressive disorders are common among people with MS—and they’re often under-diagnosed and under-treated. Promising remedies for emotional changes include: What strategies are available to reduce or manage depression?

• What is;
• Therapy. Depression often goes hand in hand with fatigue and sleep problems, according to Amy MB Sullivan, PsyD, director of Behavioral Medicine, Training and Research at the Mellen Center for MS at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Sullivan co-authored a small study showing that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)—a kind of talk therapy that helps you identify and replace thoughts and behaviors that trigger sleep issues and teaches healthy sleep habits—improves insomnia, increases total sleep time, and reduces fatigue and depression. “The benefits of working with a therapist are significant, and can substantially improve mood, sleep, fatigue and even your MS,” Sullivan says.
• Social support. Research has linked social support to better mental health and less stress among people living with MS, so call friends, spend time with family and join support groups:
• Mind-body approaches including mindfulness and meditation, plus yoga and tai chi, can help lessen mild to moderate depressive symptoms, anxiety and stress. Link uses mindfulness and meditation, along with deep breathing, lavender oil and a gratitude practice. “A sense of gratitude carries me through the tough times, because it could always be worse,” she says.
• Stress-management strategies. According to a 2012 study in the journal Neurology, a stress management program reduced measures of disease activity.

500

A NOUN meaning;

 

1. the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

   "the often remarkable resilience of so many British institutions"

2. the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.

What is "Resiliency"