CU Study Hints at Potential New Multiple Sclerosis Treatment
Marissa Weiss (2010-11-18)
BOULDER, CO (KUNC) – Research at the University of Colorado Boulder may lead to a drug that would address both the pain and paralysis of multiple sclerosis, or MS.
The obvious symptoms of MS are tremors and paralysis. But the majority of people with MS also suffer from chronic pain, for which there are currently no available drugs, says Linda Watkins, a distinguished professor of Neuroscience at CU. So her team set out to test chronic pain treatments and what they found exceeded their expectations.
“What was surprising was that they had such dramatic effects on arresting and reversing paralysis as well,” says Watkins.
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