Special Symposium

Neurodegenerative Disease (e.g. MS, Parkinson's disease)

Lifestyle Medicine

Technology (e.g. robotics, assistive technology, mHealth)

SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: Promoting Real World Physical Activity to Improve Health Outcomes in Persons Living With Multiple Sclerosis (772092)

Presenter(s)

• 

  Victor W. Mark, MD

  Associate Professor
  University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Birmingham, Alabama

  Presentation Slides
• 

  Erwin E. van Wegen, PhD

  Associate Professor
  Amsterdam University Medical Center
  Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Moderator(s)

• 

  Mark A. Hirsch, PhD, FACRM

  Senior Scientist
  Carolinas Rehabilitation
  Charlotte, North Carolina

  Presentation Slides
• 

  Michele K. York, PhD, ABPP-CN

  Associate Professor, Section Head, Neuropsychology
  Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine
  Houston, Texas

Panelist(s)

• 

  Ekaterina Dobryakova, PhD

  Research Assistant Professor
  Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
  East Hanover, New Jersey

Presenter(s)

• 

  Mark A. Hirsch, PhD, FACRM

  Senior Scientist
  Carolinas Rehabilitation
  Charlotte, North Carolina

  Presentation Slides

Victor Mark, MD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Movement Scientist Erwin van Wegen, PhD of Amsterdam University Medical Center, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The Netherlands, will present a special symposium focus on ongoing and recently completed trials on rehabilitation to improve fatigue, physical activity and real-world activities of daily living among people living with Multiple Sclerosis (PwMS). The presenters aim to provide rehabilitation clinicians and scientists evidence-based insight into the relationship between real-world physical activity patterns and coping with fatigue among PwMS.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand historical development of different forms of physical training for spontaneous real-world physical activities in persons with multiple sclerosis.
• understand the extent to which gains in real world physical activity are retained following completion of training
• Understand the complex association between physical activity patterns and how people with MS cope with fatigue