'The final frontier': How a new clinical trial is aiming to improve the lives of people with MS

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A new treatment to repair the damage the disease causes could be on the horizon, thanks to a ground-breaking study underway in Tasmania.

The trial is exploring use of magnetic brain stimulation to activate specialised brain cells to repair and regrow myelinPhase one of the trial has been completed, with recruitment underway for phase two

"But over time, my MS has progressed. And so it's got more and more difficult to walk. Some of the time I use a wheelchair, a lot of the time I use sticks. I'm pretty tired.Researchers in Tasmania are hopeful they may have found a way to reverse some of the damage the disease causes.These protect nerve cells by producing an insulating substance called myelin, which is stripped away when the brain cells die.

"One of the really critical unmet needs for people with MS is the existence of brain repair treatment," she said."We don't have one, and we really need one. And what we're hoping is that if we can then increase the addition of insulation back to the brain, then the nerve cells will be able to function normally and this will result in people with MS having fewer symptoms.

"If this works, it will be the first internationally of its kind — and that would be a really massive breakthrough for the community." "[This trial] means that in the long term, we could actually be looking at people with MS improving … and some of that functionality that they've lost through MS would be restored.

 

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