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I Was Diagnosed With Multiple Sclerosis After My Body Went Numb While Touring For So You Think You Can Dance After I heard the news, the first thing out of my mouth was, Will I be able to dance again?
By Courtney Platt, as told to Lauren Krouse May 1, 2021
As a dancer, the one thing I’m definitely sure of is my body and what I’m feeling. But I wasn’t always so great at listening to it. That became all the more clear to me in the fall of 2011.
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CLARKSVILLE, TN – When Jennifer Denk takes out her guitar and strums a soothing melody – anything from “Amazing Grace” to “Margaritaville” – her listeners sometimes drift off to sleep. As a board-certified music therapist, that’s exactly the type of reaction she wants. Denk isn’t a performer; her music, played in schools, hospitals, and for hospice patients, is meant to ease suffering and help listeners overcome challenges.
“I’ve done this for 10 years, and I’m still blown away by the power of music,” she said. “Our purpose is not to teach our clients to learn an instrument or sing. We’re using music to address their needs. So, we’re working with motor skills, communication skills, cognitive skills, social skills, and emotional skills. That’s why there are so many applications of music therapy in the community.”
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Stories marked #ACTRIMS2021 are by members of the Multiple Sclerosis News Today team, who reported on this annual conference of MS researchers, held virtually this year due to COVID-19.
Can it really be this easy? Spend half an hour a day in the sun as a child and reduce your risk of pediatric onset MS by more than 2.5%? It seems too simple to be true, but these researchers say their results may have to do with vitamin D, which has been shown to reduce MS risk in adults.
Spending more time in the summer sun and living in generally sunnier places appears to provide protection against pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis (MS), an international team of scientists reported.
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