Education

Education is very much a part of all MS Society related activities. Through MS Society educational programs, people with MS and their families gain a better understanding of multiple sclerosis. The MS Society offer a number of live sessions taking place across Canada as well as a number of online resources. Please see below for more details:

• Live National Education Series
• Montréal08 - Living with MS
• Online Education Series
• Archive Education Series

Live National Education Series:

Progressive MS: Research and Management – This NEW educational series will focus on current research into treatments for progressive MS and how to improve your quality of life living with this form of the disease.

Montréal08 - Living with MS

On Tuesday September 16 the MS Society of Canada and the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation partnered to host Living with MS: Global perspectives on Current Issues. This one day educational program, held in Montreal convened people with MS and leading experts from around the world. In all, 500 people from 22 countries heard presentations on subjects including MS management, treatment and research. To view the program and the presentations please see www.montreal08.net/en/Speakers.html

Online Education Series

In the spring of 2006 the MS Society offered a new way to receive information on difficult topics related to MS.

Learning for Life: Managing MS-related Sexual Dysfunction
This archived education session will provide the viewer with information to help manage Sexual Dysfunction related to MS.

Learning for Life: Managing MS-related Bowel and Bladder
This archived education session will provide the viewer with information to help manage Bowel and Bladder Dysfunction related to MS.

Archived Education Series

Living Well with MS: Mind Matters
This series toured across Canada to 13 English-speaking cites and three French-speaking ones from the fall of 2004 to the fall of 2005. This session will help people living with MS and depression understand what they have been struggling with, and how to better cope in their day-to-day lives. View the session, broadcast live from Hamilton to 15 sites across Canada in 2004.

Living for Today: Managing MS Pain
This series has been presented at 13 locations across Canada in the fall of 2005, with 7 additional sites in 2006. This education session will, through outstanding presenters who form an expert “Q & A” panel, to provide you with insights and tools to help manage MS pain. The goal is to provide people with MS, their families and caregivers with accurate and up-to-date information, enabling an enhanced quality of life while acknowledging their reality of living with MS. View a session taped in Edmonton in 2005.

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