NEW 'Just Diagnosed' Booklet
06 Dec 2002
The Multiple Sclerosis Society has launched a new range of
evidence-based and professionally-reviewed publications to help people affected by MS and the health professionals who care for them.
'Just diagnosed: an introduction to MS' is a 36-page pocket-size booklet which answers in clear language the questions people with MS told the Society they had asked at the time of their own diagnosis.
It starts by explaining what we know about MS, how it affects different people in different ways and how diagnosis is made. It then describes the very varied symptoms of the condition, what treatments are available and how to help manage life with MS. Sources of professional help and information are included.
More questions are answered in MS Essentials, a new MS Society series of 16-page booklets covering different aspects of living with MS. The first three are 'Managing relapses', 'MS, memory and thinking' and 'MS and insurance'.
Managing relapses helps the reader understand more about MS 'attacks', looks at the use of steroids and new disease-modifying drugs in treating them and highlights the increasingly important role multidisciplinary rehabilitation can play in improving quality of life.
MS, memory and thinking describes the various cognitive problems which can affect people with MS and suggests ways of coping, with and without professional help.
MS and insurance is a plain language guide to how the condition may affect insurance cover, what to look for in policies, fair treatment from insurers and where to go for further help.
The MS Society has also published four-page leaflets on the three main forms of MS - relapsing remitting, secondary progressive and primary progressive and their management, written by its medical adviser Professor Alan Thompson of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
All publications are available FREE of charge on written request from;
the Information Team,
Multiple Sclerosis Society,
MS National Centre,
372 Edgware Road,
London NW2 6ND.
It starts by explaining what we know about MS, how it affects different people in different ways and how diagnosis is made. It then describes the very varied symptoms of the condition, what treatments are available and how to help manage life with MS. Sources of professional help and information are included.
More questions are answered in MS Essentials, a new MS Society series of 16-page booklets covering different aspects of living with MS. The first three are 'Managing relapses', 'MS, memory and thinking' and 'MS and insurance'.
Managing relapses helps the reader understand more about MS 'attacks', looks at the use of steroids and new disease-modifying drugs in treating them and highlights the increasingly important role multidisciplinary rehabilitation can play in improving quality of life.
MS, memory and thinking describes the various cognitive problems which can affect people with MS and suggests ways of coping, with and without professional help.
MS and insurance is a plain language guide to how the condition may affect insurance cover, what to look for in policies, fair treatment from insurers and where to go for further help.
The MS Society has also published four-page leaflets on the three main forms of MS - relapsing remitting, secondary progressive and primary progressive and their management, written by its medical adviser Professor Alan Thompson of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
All publications are available FREE of charge on written request from;
the Information Team,
Multiple Sclerosis Society,
MS National Centre,
372 Edgware Road,
London NW2 6ND.
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