Symposium

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

Lifestyle Medicine

Activities of Daily Living and Wellbeing in Multiple Sclerosis: Research Highlights from Multiple Sclerosis Task Force (830478)

Moderator(s)

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  Ekaterina Dobryakova, PhD

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

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio

Presenter(s)

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  Yael Goverover, PhD, OTR/L

  Professor
  New York University
  New York, New York

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio
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  Ali Yavuz Y. Karahan, MD

  Associate Professor, Chairperson of Department of PM&R
  University of Usak, Usak

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio
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  Brooks C. Wingo, PhD

  Associate Professor
  University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Birmingham, Alabama

  Presentation Slides
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  Catherine Siengsukon, PT, PhD

  Associate Professor
  University of Kansas Medical Center
  Kansas City, Kansas

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio

Exercise is an integral part of multiple sclerosis (MS) rehabilitation. The health benefits of regular exercise and being active for patients with MS is well known. As every MS patient benefits from exercise, regardless of age, sex, or physical ability, almost every MS patient is recommended to exercise regularly, and every physiatrist or physiotherapist recommends that their MS patients do regular activities. However, more than half of MS patients don't exercise or decrease their regular exercise during middle age. An experienced, reliable, and dedicated development team is required to assess the barriers of this population to regularly exercise better. Each team member should give their maximum effort to identify both the obstacles and enablers that influence adherence to a regular exercise schedule.

Learning Objectives:

• Upon completion of this symposium, the audience will be able to describe the benefits of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in multiple sclerosis.
• Upon completion of this symposium, the audience will be able to describe most appropriate assessment for performance-based instrumental activities of daily living
• Upon completion of this symposium, the audience will be able to describe feasibility of implementing a telehealth dietary intervention with a mobile app and phone calls
• Upon completion of this symposium, the audience will be able to describe the barriers for regular exercise in MS and how the team can overcome them