How Is Klonopin Used For Multiple Sclerosis Muscle Spasms?

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Article updated and reviewed by Associate Professor of Medicine / Neurology, Cooper University Hospital & Robert Wood Johnson Medical School on May 11, 2005.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease that attacks the myelin sheath which surrounds and protects nerve fibers of the brain and spinal cord (the central nervous system).

The central nervous system contains billions of nerve cells which are joined by nerve fibers (axons). Electrical impulses originate in nerve cells and...

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