What is MS?
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Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that affects the body's central nervous system. Multiple sclerosis destroys the layer of insulation around nerve cells, leaving hard scar tissue known as plaque. MS also damages axons in the nervous system. Relapsing-Remitting and chronic progressive are the two main types of Multiple Sclerosis. MS is a degenerative disease that may lead to permanent disability.
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Whether you have been diagnosed, in the process of being diagnosed, or wonder what it takes to get diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, it is likely that you have heard of LESIONS. Those scars (or plaques) which can be seen on MRI scans which show when the myelin has been damaged. MYELIN is the fatty protein which creates an insulating…
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