View clinical trials related to Multiple Sclerosis.
Filter by:To assess the safety of a single dose of IV infusion of bone-marrow derived autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) with progressive disease status.
Study to evaluate the efficiency of vaginal estriol, as a treatment for urogenital symptoms in female patients with RRMS. The secondary objective is to evaluate the potential role of vaginal estriol in re-myelination in RRMS patients.
Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) struggle on a daily basis with accompanying, "Invisible" symptoms like primary fatigue, pain and emotional-cognitive disorders. With the disease progression, these symptoms only intensify, and in combination with basic physical symptoms, quality of life (QOL) rapidly decreases. An important goal of researchers and clinicians involves improving the QOL of individuals with MS, and the exercise therapy represents potentially modifiable behavior that positively impacts on pathogenesis of MS and these "Invisible" symptoms, thus improving the QOL. However, the main barrier for its application is low motivational level that MS patients experience due to fatigue with adjacent reduced exercise tolerability and mobility, and muscle weakness. Getting individuals with MS motivated to engage in continuous physical activity may be particularly difficult and challenging, especially those with severe disability or Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS 6-8). Till now, researchers have focused their attention mainly on the moderate or vigorous intensity of exercise and on cardiorespiratory training in MS patients to achieve improvements in daily life quality, less indicating the exercise content, and most importantly, breathing exercises. In addition, it is investigators intention to make exercise for MS patients more applicable and accessible, motivational and easier, but most important, productive. Investigators think that MS patients experience more stress with aerobic exercise or moderate to high intensity program exercise, and can hardly keep continuum including endurance exercise, or treadmill. Hypothesis: Investigators hypothesis is that 8-weeks of continuous low demanding or mild exercise program with the accent on breathing exercise can attenuate primary fatigue, pain, headaches, emotional-cognitive and sleep dysfunctions in MS patients and provide maintenance of exercise motivation. Investigators also propose that important assistant factor for final goal achievement is social and mental support of the exercise group (EDSS from 0-8) led by a physiotherapist. This will help to maintain exercise motivation and finally make better psychophysical functioning, and thus better QOL.
Cognitive impairment is nowadays more and more recognized as an important feature of the multiple sclerosis (MS) disease which contributes largely to disability. Cognitive assessment using classical neuropsychological tests are poorly correlated with patient's complaints and daily functioning. Ecological evaluations, recent and innovative way to assess cognitive functions with the true impact of cognitive impairment in everyday daily life of patients. One goal of an ecological test could be to identify MS patients in whom cognitive impairment has a strong interaction with daily life. Different type of ecological evaluation have been recently proposed in MS, including assessment cognitive tasks in a virtual reality environment using the Urban DailyCog® software developed in our laboratory (Hamel et al, 2015). Virtual reality environment assessments are promising in detecting cognitive impairment while providing friendly assessments for patients and simulating daily activities. . Cognitive dysfunction is correlated with white matter diffuse injury in relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) patients and brain atrophy However, the relationships between structural brain damage and brain connectivity with cognitive functioning assessed by ecological evaluation are also unknown. The use of new techniques for morphological and functional MRI can study the contribution of diffuse white matter (WM) alteration and diffuse gray matter (GM) alterations in cognitive impairment and on their evolution. The objectives are to evaluate the ecological assessment (Urban DailyCog® and actual reality) to detect cognitive impairment in everyday daily life of patients and their changes and to investigate structural WM and GM damages and the dynamic of functional connectivity for explaining and predicting cognitive disability during two years in RRMS patients treated by the same treatment Aubagio®.
The aim of this study was to determine the muscle architecture of the lower extremity muscles (pennation angle, muscle fiber length and muscle thickness) in patients with multiple sclerosis. Lower extremity muscles of patients with multiple sclerosis and healthy individuals; rectus femoris, biceps femoris, tibialis anterior, gastrosoleus and gastrocnemius muscles will be examined by ultrasound method.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease that leads to demyelination of the central nervous system. Fatigue is one of the most frequent and most disabling symptoms of MS. Up to 86% of individuals with MS experience fatigue at any one time; 65% consider it to be one of their three most troubling symptoms. Fatigue may limit or prevent participation in dayly activities and reduce psychological well-being (1, 2). Pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments are available for MS-related fatigue, but evidence on effectiveness is mostly inconclusive or non-existent. The psychological approaches of fatigue management are interesting. To date, three RCTs using cognitive-behavioral group-based approaches in MS fatigue management programs have demonstrated their effectiveness (3-6). The results demonstrated a reduction in fatigue scores and better self-management of the disease in general. However, if these programs are effective at the time of their application and in the medium term, the issue of maintaining long-term therapeutic benefits is problematic. The aim of this research is to assess the effectiveness of the FACETS program (6), on a population of French patients with RRMS over a 18 month period. This program focuses on the management of fatigue and is based on a conceptual framework that incorporates elements of cognitive-behavioral, self-efficacy, self-management and energy effectiveness theories. It consists of six once-weekly sessions of 90 minutes, with homework activities between the sessions. It is designed for groups of 6 to 10 people. The investigators propose to add 4 booster sessions to the FACETS program, at week 6, 12, 18 et 36 after the end of the program, in order to activate and reinforce the cognitive and behavioral processes and enhance the benefits of FACETS in the longer term. This trial is randomized controlled comparative comparing a group receiving a FACETS program with a group receiving only a current local practice. Socio-demographic and medical data are measured as well as fatigue impact, fatigue severity, anxiety and depression, sleep disorder and quality of life. The expected results are a significantly greater decrease in fatigue severity and impact in the FACETS group than the control group post intervention and this difference will be maintained at 1 year.
Weakness on one side of the body is a hallmark of Multiple Sclerosis (MS), which has been determined to be a significant cause of progressive worsening of walking abilities. Currently, there are no efficient rehabilitation strategies available to target strength asymmetries and walking impairments. Many of the current treatments, including pharmaceuticals, are only mildly effective and are often very expensive. Thus, the development of practical, inexpensive, and effective adjunct treatments is needed. The study is to examine the efficacy of different tDCS protocols at improving walking in PwMS. Although the details of the studies slightly vary, the global aspects of the experimental procedures are identical with the exception that the tDCS stimulation parameter timing differs between the groups. The study will be double-blind, sham-controlled, randomized cross-over design. Maximal voluntary contractions (MVCs) of the right and left knee extensors, knee flexors, hip flexors, and dorsiflexors will be performed to determine the more-affected leg. The study compromises 2 groups of subjects which will attend the lab for three sessions. In the first session subjects will be consented, complete the PDDS, the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS), and a 6 minute walk test (6-MWT) for baseline performance. The second session will involve a 6 MWT performed in association with 2 conditions. Group 1: DURINGtDCS, DURINGSHAM. Group 2: BEFOREtDCS, BEFORESHAM. The conditions in each group will be in a randomized order. Intensity of tDCS will be 2mA for both groups. Group 1 will receive the conditions during the 6 MWT. tDCS for 6 min has been shown to be sufficient to induce cortical excitability. Group 2 will receive 13 min of tDCS or sham, which results in after effects lasting through the completion of the 6 MWT. tDCS will be applied to the motor cortex (M1) corresponding to the more-affected leg either before or during the 6 min walk test
This study is designed to explore the expression of cell-surface markers in the following seven disease areas: (a) systemic lupus erythematosus, (b) Sjogren's syndrome, (c) multiple sclerosis, (d) systemic sclerosis, (e) Crohn's disease, (f) ulcerative colitis and (g) inflammatory myositis.
To investigate the efficacy and safety of orally administered BX-1 compared to placebo in patients with spasticity due to multiple sclerosis not sufficiently controlled by current anti-spasticity medication
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory chronic disease of the central nervous system. Patients are suffering from balance and gait impairments at the early stage of the disease. 85 % of the MS patients report gait disorders, which impact their autonomy and their quality of life and increase the risk of fall. The three-dimensional analysis of the walking by a motion capture system associated with force platforms allows the quantification of the complex walking disorders, to look for the cause, as well as side effects such as compensation strategies. According to the 2006 report of the French National Authority for Health, the 3D analysis of walking is essential in chronic pathologies to evaluate and quantify gait disorders. This analysis allows the functional follow-up of the patients throughout their rehabilitation. Some studies, on a small and heterogeneous population of MS patients, showed changes during the walking concerning spatiotemporal, kinematic, dynamic parameters and muscular activation of lower limbs at early stages of the disease. Only two studies evaluate the joint power during walking in MS patients. However, these studies have some limits. The 3D analysis of the walking proposed in this study would allow the biomechanical characterization of the gait impairments of MS patients through tasks such as walking, gait initiation and orthostatic posture. This methodology would contribute to adapt treatments and the rehabilitation care, at an early stage of the disease. From a functional point of view, the gait initiation is an interesting dynamic task to be evaluated. Indeed, it represents the transition between the upright posture and the stabilized walking. Throughout this complex task, a stereotypical motor program is set up during a first phase of anticipatory postural adjustments, which allows the creation of dynamic conditions essential for the execution of the first step. The gait initiation is little documented for MS patients despite the risk of fall clinically highlighted. The articular power during the gait initiation was never estimated in MS patients. On the other hand, there is no study establishing correlations between the Expanded Disability Status Scale functional features and the impairments of the gait initiation.