What does wellness mean to you? #AAN2016 #BrainHealth #MSBlog
“We at Barts-MS continue to promote the holistic management of MS and brain health is simply one way of framing this strategy in relation to MS. However, wellness goes beyond the brain and includes many other aspects of your life. I am increasingly buying into wellness as a therapeutic target and continue to challenge my colleagues to do so as well. Can you really tell your patients to go on diet and exercise when you are overweight yourself and don’t exercise? One of my academic colleagues who is a very high profile oncologist continues to smoke, albeit secretively. How can this individual get on a public platform, which he does frequently, to promote non-smoking as a core cancer prevention strategy?”
“I am aware that wellness means different things to different people, which means if we make this a therapeutic target in MS we will truly have to personalise it. I want you to reflect on these issues so that we can discuss them over the next few weeks.”
“A key theme of the AAN 2016 was brain health and wellness. What does wellness mean to you? Can we define wellness and make it a therapeutic target in MS?”
“We at Barts-MS continue to promote the holistic management of MS and brain health is simply one way of framing this strategy in relation to MS. However, wellness goes beyond the brain and includes many other aspects of your life. I am increasingly buying into wellness as a therapeutic target and continue to challenge my colleagues to do so as well. Can you really tell your patients to go on diet and exercise when you are overweight yourself and don’t exercise? One of my academic colleagues who is a very high profile oncologist continues to smoke, albeit secretively. How can this individual get on a public platform, which he does frequently, to promote non-smoking as a core cancer prevention strategy?”
“I am aware that wellness means different things to different people, which means if we make this a therapeutic target in MS we will truly have to personalise it. I want you to reflect on these issues so that we can discuss them over the next few weeks.”
CoI: multiple
My sleep was always sucks, and it always hurt my bm-being… After I started using Melatonin ((I would not recommend to anyone to self-medicate), I feel my sleep really "natural", where I can rest if only sleep six hours a day… I see many MSers complaining of chronic fatigue and cognitive problems.Focuses rather on the loss of motor function (obvious, and should remain so), but cognitive problems and chronic fatigue fact deserve also deserve greater attention and treatment issues the the well-being and quality of life…
Is there any relationship between MSers who smoke and DMT treatment failure or less than optimal response to the DMT? I understand there probably are many factors which can lead to DMT treatment failure.
Sounds like some exciting stuff to come…I completely agree that there is more to MS management towards all regiments for best outcomes. I am proof.In as far as a doc smoking yet professing not to? Welp… I wonder if hypocrisy is a purely human trait or do other animals all have this?I often ask people, "Do you believe in extraterrestrial life?". The answer is usually yes.