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Salt Lake City, UT (ReleaseWire) 12/20/2020 Nate Henrie, husband and father from Layton, Utah, was selected by Las Vegas Raiders linebacker Cory Littleton to design his football cleats this month. The cleats are a way for Henrie and the Raiders to bring awareness to Multiple Sclerosis. As part of the NFL s My Cause My Cleats initiative, players participate in causes they are passionate about. For the Raiders Cory Littleton, it s MS.
In January of 2016, Henrie started experiencing blurred vision in his left eye. These symptoms led to a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. Afraid of what the future might hold, Henrie sought care from Intermountain Healthcare McKay-Dee Hospital Neurologist, Dr. Brett Alldredge. Fast forward to 2020 and Henrie found himself nominated for a once in a lifetime opportunity by Dr. Alldredge to participate in My Cause My Cleats and bring awareness of Multiple Sclerosis.
Managing life with MS during the pandemic
Dec. 18, 2020
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(BPT) - Crystal is a wife, mother of four and a frontline healthcare worker who also happens to have multiple sclerosis (MS). Though she had experienced numbness, tingling and pain since she was a child, doctors initially downplayed her symptoms. It was not until 2003, while Crystal was in nursing school, that she received her MS diagnosis after she became unconscious and ended up in the emergency room, blind and paralyzed on her left side.
According to an estimate from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, nearly 1 million people over the age of 18 are living with MS in the United States. MS is a chronic and unpredictable disease of the central nervous system (CNS) and is thought to be an immune-mediated disorder, in which the immune system attacks healthy tissue in the CNS.