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MSRTE MS Research Sites:
These sites help you find the latest on Multiple Sclerosis-MS Research:
- ECTRIMS is a representative European organisation that facilitates communication and creates synergies among clinicians and scientists to promote and enhance research and improve clinical outcomes in multiple sclerosis.
- Cannabis in Multiple Sclerosis: the trial is being coordinated from Plymouth, UK and will look specifically at the question of whether cannabis, as either whole plant extract or one of its active components, can help the muscle stiffness and spasms that affect multiple sclerosis sufferers. Many hospitals around the country are taking part and 660 patients will be recruited over the next two years.
- Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers: improving the lives of people affected with MS. It is a multi-disciplinary organisation serving the healthcare community, MS professionals and those persons affected by MS.
- FESnet: network for rehabilitation using Functional Electrical Stimulation or therapy and function restoration. It brings together a number of universities, clinical and industrial centres, which have demonstrated international leadership, to better coordinate and promote research in key areas such as MS.
- Multiple Sclerosis Research Group: based at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown. Current projects: Survey of current management of people with Multiple Sclerosis (PwMS) by Allied Health Professionals and Nurses; TENS electrotherapy for low back pain in PwMS; biofeedback and electrical stimulation for urinary incontinence in PwMS; quality of life, stress management and ways of coping for PwMS; treatment and prevention of pressure ulcers in PwMS; needs of caregivers of PwMS.
- Multiple Sclerosis Research Unit: at Bristol General Hospital, The MS Unit was set up in 1994 with the remit: To Use every possible means to restore to people with MS abilities lost as a result of MS by replacing, reviving or re-instating function.
- Rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis (RIMS): the network of MS Centres in Europe was created in 1991, in Milan, Italy to enhance collaboration by the foremost MS Centres in Europe. Its members are comprehensive MS research and treatment centres, MS Clinics and corporations with a special interest in MS. Besides the member states of the European Community the research and treatment programmes has been opened to research organisations and clinics in central and eastern countries and the new independent states of the former Soviet Union.
