The telephone EDSS by doctors has been validated in a pan-European study 14 and a parallel validation study by multiple sclerosis nurses is currently under way.
Independent samples t-test We thank R Holliday and S Jain for assistance with the postal survey, A Lawrence, C Hill and T Lane for assistance with data entry, and the multiple sclerosis nursing team: F Matheson, E Harrison, E Keenan.
"I lied and told the doctors I was pregnant," said Theresa Caffey of Centreville, who has multiple sclerosis and nurses her 11-week-old son, Joshua.
To compare the effects of reflexology and progressive muscle relaxation training for people with multiple sclerosis, provided by nurse therapists, on psychological and physical outcomes.
Ketrow had moved into her house about three years earlier after his mother, who has multiple sclerosis, went into a nursing home.
Harleman found that her marriage actually improved after she made the wrenching decision to put her husband, severely disabled by multiple sclerosis, into a nonprofit nursing home: "I'm no longer his physical caregiver, I'm no longer implicated in his illness...
Participants were people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) and outpatient staff: staff nurses, nursing assistants, junior sisters and reception staff.
Two years ago she and her siblings began cleaning out the family home so that their mother, Louise, who has multiple sclerosis, could move to a nursing home.
Parr's wife was in a nursing home with multiple sclerosis.
She had to give up nursing after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and the charity was able to provide her with a specialised wheelchair.
