Volume 4, Issue 6

Nonpharmacologic Symptom Management

In this issue:

Fatigue. Urinary dysfunction. Constipation. Spasticity and gait problems. Providing relief from these common MS symptoms often requires clinicians to go beyond the prescription pad to recommend nonpharmacologic treatments. What works? What doesn’t? What does the evidence say? 

Join us as Dr. W. Oliver Tobin from the Mayo Clinic discusses these questions in this eMultipleSclerosis Review podcast. 

Learning objectives:

  • Discuss how nonpharmacologic treatments may be effective in relieving the common MS symptoms of urinary urgency, fatigue, spasticity, and gait dysfunction. 
  • Describe the interactions between multiple sclerosis and the common comorbidities of depression and obesity. 

Author:

W. Oliver Tobin, MB, BCh, BAO, PhD
W. Oliver Tobin, MB, BCh, BAO, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Program Directors:

Pavan Bhargava, MBBS, MD

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Lisa Fox, PA-C, MPAS

Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD

Michael Kornberg, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Length of activity:

0.5 hour Physicians
0.5 contact hour Nurses

Launch date: May 10, 2022
Expiration date: May 9, 2024