This series of videos covers both seated and standing exercises to help your balance and stability. We’ve thrown in some mat work to boost your core too.
This series of videos covers both seated and standing exercises to help your balance and stability. We’ve thrown in some mat work to boost your core too..
Watch Dom’s tailored playlist to start strengthening your arms and shoulders to reduce stiffness. Take things at your own pace and take a break if you need to.
Physiotherapy, including stretching and range-of-motion exercises, is a key part of treating and managing muscle spasms or stiffness.
Yoga may also improve your flexibility and reduce muscle stiffness.
A continence advisor, MS nurse or physiotherapist can help you with pelvic floor exercises for bladder control.
Keeping physically active may help some people with bowel control. One study found that people with MS had improvements in their bowel functions after following a 15-week course of yoga.
Problems with memory and thinking – also called ‘cognitive problems’ – can affect people with MS, but most people will be affected mildly. There are plenty of tips to help with these changes, and neuropsychologists can also help you deal with them.
Exercise can bring improvements in strength, fitness and mood – all of which might help you to manage your fatigue.
Carefully designed physiotherapy programmes, outdoor walking and aerobics can help people improve your balance and walking.
Music mad Shane McFarlane was a 25-year-old DJ with ambitions of setting up his own record distribution company when he began to experience strange health symptoms.
