Table of Contents

Part 1: THE LAY OF THE LAND
1. Understanding multiple sclerosis

Part 2: THE DIRECTIONS
2. Overview of the OMS program
3. Eat well
4. Get enough sun and vitamin D
5. Exercise
6. Meditation, mindfulness and the mind-body connection
7. Medication
8. Progressive MS
9. Families and prevention

Part 3: KEEPING ON TRACK
10. I've just been diagnosed with MS
11. Choosing your healthcare team
12. Mental health
13. Building resilience
14. Work
15. Disclosure
16. Pregnancy and childbirth
17. Sticking with the OMS program

Part 4: THE ROAD AHEAD
18. Facing an uncertain future
19. The road ahead

Index

About the Author

Professor George Jelinek MBBS, MD developed the OMS 7-Step Recovery Program and founded the Neuroepidemiology Unit at the University of Melbourne. An international leader in research and treatment of multiple sclerosis, he is the author of the bestselling Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis. Associate Professor Sandra Neate MBBS, FACEM is an emergency physician, and Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Neuroepidemiology Unit at the University of Melbourne. Dr Michelle O'Donoghue MD, MPH is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.