MS Treatment: Treat The Cause Not The Symptoms

Posted on 12. Sep, 2011 by Fiona Chin in MS Treatment

Multiple Sclerosis is a disease where the myelin sheath of the central nervous system is attacked by the immune system, whereby the immune system mistakes the myelin cells as a foreign invader and thus tries to destroy it. The attack on the myelin sheath disrupts the communication of messages sent via electrical impulses along the nerves of the central nervous system. It is this interrupted electrical signal that produces the many different symptoms of MS.

MS is such an individual disease where people can suffer from any number of different symptoms. It is due to this individual nature of MS that MS treatment plans need to be individualized for the client and not just the disease alone.

It is due to this individual nature of humans as to why some drugs work well in some people and not well in others. Neurologist and practitioners would be smart to consider the individual needs and nature of a person when considering different MS treatment options.

It is exactly the same theory adopted by natural health care practitioners, where treat the person and not the disease is one of the core philosophies considered in any MS treatment plan.

To better understand and treat an individual with multiple sclerosis better and more thorough diagnostic testing needs to be adopted into early consultations. MS treatment plans can best be prescribed when individual pathologies are better understood.

Pathology testing seems minimal in my experience with MS. I often see clients where testing has been done only to find what I determine as necessary blood tests, have not been done at all. Basic multiple sclerosis diagnostic testing should include at the very least the follow blood tests:

Is paramount to have adequate testing performed when treating MS.

hs-CRP

hs-CRP is a more sensitive marker for inflammation; you may see that you have had your CRP levels checked which during a relapse will be elevated. However during times of remittance a standard CRP test is not sensitive enough to pick up small levels of inflammation.

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MS Treatment: Treat The Cause Not The Symptoms