Personalized treatment plans help patients sustain and improve functionality over the course of their illness, enabling them to participate in more activities and providing hope for their futures. We also empower patients by treating symptoms of MS with medications, nutrition, exercises, and assistive devices. The goal of treatment for each patient is to find the best disease-modifying therapy (DMT) that will prevent future relapses, new MRI lesions, and disability progression. Advanced practice providers (physician assistants and nurse practitioners).UT Southwestern specialists provide individualized, multidisciplinary treatment plans to maximize each person’s abilities and minimize disabilities. Physicians at the UT Southwestern Clinical Center for Multiple Sclerosis are experts in diagnosing MS and will conduct a careful medical history and a neurologic exam.
We must collect information from a variety of tests and imaging studies to find evidence of damage in at least two separate areas of the central nervous system that has occurred at two different times and then rule out other illnesses. There is no single test that can diagnose MS. We also treat other autoimmune diseases, such as neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD), anti-MOG antibody-associated disorder (MOGAD), transverse myelitis (TM), and autoimmune encephalitis. Our team of specialists provides each patient an individualized treatment plan to decrease the frequency of MS attacks and impede the onset of permanent disability.
Patients have access to specialists in virtually every discipline related to the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. UT Southwestern’s Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Clinic addresses the wide range of symptoms that can make MS difficult to treat.
Scar tissue (or sclerosis), builds up within the central nervous system, disrupting nerve function across many systems in the body. MS is believed to be an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system attacks myelin, the protective covering of the nerves in the brain, optic nerve, and spinal cord. It is the most common disabling disease in young adults, usually striking between the ages of 18 and 45 and occurring three times as frequently in women as in men. MS is a central nervous system disorder that affects more than 800,000 people in the U.S. Personalized Care, Maximized Independence