May’s 100 Club draw winners

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1st prize:    Angie Duncan

2nd prize:    Beryl Slater

3rd prize:    Richard Twine

 

Our lotto has fantastic odds, and once set up it requires no time or effort on your part.  Therapy Centre members can buy one or more numbers which are entered into twelve monthly draws.  There are no running costs, so a guaranteed 50% of all income is awarded as cash prizes, and all the rest goes straight towards the running of the centre.  With numbers costing only £5 each per month, the income from just 100 sales builds a prize fund of £3000 a year, with the same amount going to help fund the centre.  With three prizes a month, the odds are extremely good.

Please sponsor Sue & family!

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Sue and her family are doing a 5k Color Obstacle Rush in Milton Keynes on 4th June, to raise money to purchase some walking bars for the physiotherapy room.  Thank you to those who have sponsored them, if you haven’t you still have time, please go to page: http://www.virginmoneygiving.com/team/RushDorans or there is a paper sponsorship form in the Centre.

Fashionable Clothing for Wheelchair Users

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Hannah Dunk, daughter of one of our BMSTC members, was inspired by her Mum to set up her own business making fashionable clothing for wheelchair users.

“My mother Helen has always been a very glamorous lady. Being diagnosed with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis 14 years ago my mum is now wheelchair bound. I have found it almost impossible to find her fashionable clothing to fit comfortably. Being hoisted means that material rides up exposing her midriff. I came up with clothing designs to help her protect her dignity and of course to show the world she is still young and fashionable. I am thrilled to share the designs with you all!
Hannah”
Find out more here!

Relapses prevented in MS Mouse Model

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Researchers at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, recently showed that peripheral blood cells loaded with a drug that resembles the myelin protein are able to inhibit harmful immune responses and prevent relapses in a mouse model of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS).
The findings were described in the study “Autoantigen-specific immunosuppression with tolerogenic peripheral blood cells prevents relapses in a mouse model of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis,” and published in the Journal of Translational Medicine.  Read on.

Thinking of Booking a Holiday in France?

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A unique concept in holidays for disabled people wanting to travel to France. Based on the pink granite coast of Brittany, on the banks of the River Jaudy in a small and very beautiful town called La Roche Derrien, we offer the comfort of modern living in a rural traditional setting, yet we are only ten minutes away from the beaches, several towns and all the other attractions you would expect on a holiday.  Find out more here.

“Suffer from constipation? Local study is still looking for participants

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AMBER is a clinical trial looking at the effects of abdominal massage on neurogenic bowel disorder. Recruitment is taking place at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford for the next 8 weeks. Interested MS patients with constipation are encouraged to get in touch with the AMBER trial office atAMBER@gcu.ac.uk or 0141 331 3516 for further details about the study. Information can also be found at www.gcu.ac.uk/amber.”

“It is funded by the National Institute for Health Research, Health Technology Assessment Programme (Project: 12/127/12) and sponsored by Glasgow Caledonian University. The day-to-day running of the trial is managed by a team within the NMAHP Unit, Department of Health and Life Sciences.”

Be in a study

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 Source MS Society:

You are vital in progressing understanding of the cause of MS, developing a cure and providing support and treatments for people living with MS. Involvement in research can range from completing a questionnaire to being in a clinical trial for a new treatment.  Read on.

How MS Aware are you?

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MS Awareness Week may be over for this year, but there’s still time for you, your members, friends, family, colleagues and everyone in between to complete our survey ‘How MS Aware are you?’.

 

We’ve had a great number of responses so far so thank you to everyone who has completed and shared.  But we can always use more – the survey closes this Friday so please keep sharing until then!

 

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/X9J5CSM