Susan Fralick-Ball – Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment of Neuromuscular & Neurodegenerative Disorders

These disorders remain the nation’s leading causes of disability. They are devastation. and costly. The aging population has led to an increase in the incidence of These disorders are on the rise.

Susan Fralick-Ball – Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment of Neuromuscular & Neurodegenerative Disorders

Multiple Sclerosis

• There are 4 types
• Risk factors: Low Vitamin D or abnormal lipid metabolism
• The diagnosis is 1-2-3
  • Neuromyelitis Optica and nystagmus
  • Genomic markers
• Plain MRI and 3-D
• Multiple complications can be treated
• Get Dancing and For MS, get on a bike and do some exercises
• Medication updates 2016
• Case Study

Parkinson’s Disease

• Degeneration, Decline, and Autonomic Disease
  • Is it a Prion Disease?
• T-R-A-P symptoms
• Non-Motor complications
• Biomarkers, LRRK variants
• Medical treatment
  • Medications
  • Neuroprotection
• Surgical treatment
  • Palidotomy. Thalamotomy. DBS. Stem cell transplantation.
• New PT/OT/SP guidelines to encourage early engagement
  • Bikes, boxing, Big & Loud programs, forced exercise
  • Electric stimulation
• PD chameleons
  • Essential Tremor
  • Progressive supranuclear palsy
  • Corticobasilar degeneration
• Case Study

Myasthenia Gravis

• Neuromuscular Junction Disorder
  • Autoimmune
  • T-Cell interference at NMJ
• Edrophonium (Enlon™) Test for Diagnosis
  • MG vs. Lambert-Eaton
• Short-Anticholinesterase inhibitors
• Thymectomy
• Crisis: Myasthenic Vs. Cholinergic
• Emergent Treatment: Steroids, IVIG, Plasma
• Exchange
• Case Study

Muscular Dystrophy

• Symptoms & causes
• Complications over time
• TreatmentMedical and surgical
• Case Study

Guillain-Barré Syndrome

• Syndrome of peripheral demyelination
  • Ascending
  • Pure motor
  • Descending
  • Miller-Fisher
• Early diagnosis is key to faster recovery
• Causes: Hyponatremia, bacterial, surgical, and viral
• Medical treatment: The Big Three (steroids IVIG, Plasmapheresis, and IVIG)
• PT/OT/ST/Psych guidelines
• Case Study

Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy/radiculopathy

• The difficult diagnosis dilemma
  • Testing for symptoms
• Short-term medical treatment and Long-term
  • Living with neuropathic pain
  • Medication, spinal/brain stimulation
• Best PT/OT Guidelines
• Case Study

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

• Degeneration of The motor neurons
• Generic or genetic disease?
  • Everything else must be left behind
• Risk factors and neuroprotection
• Complications can be helped by medication
  • Other treatments
  • Stem cell research
• Palliative care

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Latest Findings, Updates and Treatments:

• Innovative Treatment Regiments for OTs and PTs and SLPs
• Genomic markers Diagnosis and Treatment
• Hands vs. Hands-On Treatment
• Symptom Management and Long-Term Care

Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease & Chameleons, Myasthenia Gravis vs. Lambert-Guillain, Muscular Dystrophy and Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome.-Barré Syndrome, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy/Polyradiculopathy, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/ Motor Neuron Disease

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