Life with multiple sclerosis. Guide for patients, members of their families and medical workers

The book discusses the questions that patients with multiple sclerosis are faced when making a diagnosis, answers to the most common questions related to the diagnosis and treatment of this disease are given. Material is presented according to modern methods of drug and non -drug therapy, the main areas of rehabilitation. The necessary changes in the lifestyle of patients, the features of their daily activity, nutrition and personal life are discussed. The issues of the reaction of patients to the diagnosis and chronic disease, the mechanisms of adaptation and preservation of high quality of life against the background of the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis are considered. New methods of physiotherapy exercises, yoga, art therapy are given. Modern approaches to the comprehensive therapy of multiple sclerosis by participants in the multidisciplinary brigade of specialists are discussed, based on the individual selection of drug and non-united treatment, the patient’s active participation in the choice and conduct of pathogenetic and symptomatic therapy, medical and social rehabilitation, methods of overcoming social and psychological problems associated with the disease related to the disease.

The publication is intended for neurologists, rehabilitologists, doctors and methodologists of exercise therapy, physiotherapists, nutritionists, neuropsychologists, psychoneurologists and psychotherapists, nurses, healthcare organizers, students, residents and graduate students, all medical workers engaged in absent-minded sclerosis, as well as for a wide range of patients, their loved ones and relatives.