Multiple Sclerosis

Chapter 1 Why I Have Written This Book

Chapter 2 Things to Remember When it Feels Fruitless

Chapter 3 What Type of MS Do You Think You Have?

Chapter 4 Disability and Functional Independence

Chapter 5 Indications of Multiple Sclerosis

Chapter 6 Myelin in the Central Nervous System

Chapter 7 Stiff and Sore

Chapter 8 Dealing with Medical People

Chapter 9 Environment or Inheritance

Chapter 10 The Building Blocks of Biology

Chapter 11 Making ATP

Chapter 12 Fatigue

Chapter 13 My Path from Fatigue to High Energy Levels

Chapter 14 Epstein Barr Virus - A Smoking Gun

Chapter 15 Does Vitamin D have a Role?

Chapter 16 One Step at a Time

Chapter 17 "My Neurologist Laughed at Me."

Chapter 18 Pain

Chapter 19 Balance and Posture

Chapter 20 The Effects of Lesions

Chapter 21 Bladder Problems

Chapter 22 Bowel Problems

Chapter 23 Speech

Chapter 24 Types of Body Tissue

Chapter 25 Functional Lines of Fascia

Chapter 26 Upper and Lower Motor Neurons

Chapter 27 Excitation-Contraction Coupling

Chapter 28 The Targets when Dealing with Spasticity

Chapter 29 Dantrolene Sodium

Chapter 30 Baclofen

Chapter 31 Botulinum Toxin A

Chapter 32 Dry Needling

Chapter 33 Massage

Chapter 34 Pilates

Chapter 35 Do I have the Qualifications to Write this Book?

Part 2

Note 1 Neurons and Glia

Note 2 How Neurotransmitters Work

Note 3 Common Neurotransmitters

Note 4 Glial Cells of the Central Nervous System

Note 5 Glial Cells of the Peripheral Nervous System

Note 6 The Relationship Between Blood Vessels and Nerves

Note 7 T cells, B cells, and Cytokines

Note 8 White Blood Cells and the Immune System

Note 9 The Standard MS Theory

Note 10 The Experimental-Animal-Model Basis of the Standard Theory

Note 11 Dendritic Cells

Note 12 NFкB in Cell Signaling and Gene Expression

Note 13 NO! OO, NO!

Note 14 ATP and Cellular Respiration

Note 15 Cellular Respiration in Trouble

Note 16 Active and Passive Stretch