In this Webinar presentation, the Rocky Mountain MS Center team addresses questions and answers from our recent Spring Education Summit. This video features Dr. Enrique Alvarez, Dr. Robert Gross, Dr. Teri Schreiner, and Dr. Ryan Kammeyer.
Click here for more information on the Spring Education Summit, including links to each of the doctors’ presentations and slide decks.
TOPICS ADDRESSED IN THIS VIDEO:
- 2:23 Lesion location and symptoms, foot drop and leg weakness
- 4:50 Bladder symptoms
- 6:49 Frequency of spinal imaging
- 8:22 What else can cause symptoms?
- 9:09 General symptom management
- 10:44 Spasticity
- 12:46 Massage, acupuncture, dry needling, lasers
- 14:27 PIRA and smoldering MS, worsening
- 16:37 Late onset MS, diagnosis over 50
- 19:56 Aging with MS
- 22:30 Risk of PML with BTKi drugs
- 23:21 Premeds with infusions
- 24:48 Dose frequency of anti cd20 infusions
- 28:14 MS lesions vs. other brain lesions
- 31:34 Predicting disease severity
- 35:35 How to treat MS?
- 39:40 Diet and MS
- 43:30 Alcohol
- 44:23 Diet, intermittent fasting
- 48:25 Pseudo-relapses
- 50:07 Perimenopause and menopause
- 52:25 Psilocybin and ketamine
- 54:50 Fatigue
- 57:05 Incidence of MS in first responders and military
- 58:24 Risk of breast cancer with Ocrevus
- 1:00:14 GLP1 medications
- 1:02:11 Vagal nerve stimulation
- 1:03:38 Diagnosing progressive MS
- 1:05:41 Relapse free after DMTs?
- 1:06:40 Efficacy of anti CD20 B-cell medications, comparing drugs
- 1:10:07 Frexalimab
- 1:11:30 Vitamins
- 1:14:17 Lhermitte’s
- 1:16:40 Support partners role
