{"id":445,"date":"2019-01-24T15:43:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T15:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/news\/multiple-sclerosis-ireland-facts-and-information\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T11:01:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T11:01:22","slug":"multiple-sclerosis-ireland-facts-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/neurology\/multiple-sclerosis-ireland-facts-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple sclerosis Ireland: facts and information"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>MS Ireland is the national organisation providing information as well as support and advocacy for the 9,000 people living with Multiple Sclerosis and their families.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is MS?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/neurology\/changing-attitudes-towards-multiple-sclerosis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">MS is in fact <\/a>the most common chronic disabling disease of the Central Nervous System (CNS) affecting young adults in Ireland and is usually diagnosed between 20 and 40 years of age. The variance in presence, severity and duration of symptoms coupled with the intermittent and progressive nature of MS impacts not only the person with MS but also family. However, there is no known cause or cure for MS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>MS Ireland \u2013 the numbers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>MS Ireland provides a wide range of specialised services and resources for instance on a national, regional and local level.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>For example, there are 9,000 people living with MS in Ireland.<\/li><li>MS Information Line \u2013&nbsp;1320 contacts made in 2015 January \u2013 October 2015<\/li><li>Individual and family support from regional community workers \u2013&nbsp;2,148<\/li><li>Physiotherapy Classes &#8211;&nbsp;498<\/li><li>Newly diagnosed seminar &#8211;&nbsp;24<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In fact, the MS Care Centre, Ireland\u2019s only dedicated respite and therapy centre for people with Multiple Sclerosis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>12 people with MS, one week stay \u2013 272 people with MS Jan-Oct 2015<\/li><li>Regional office and branch support<\/li><li>10 regional offices<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>38 voluntary branches:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Leinster \u2013&nbsp;Dublin South, East Wicklow, Dublin North, Dublin West, Kildare, Louth, Meath, Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford South, Athlone, Laois, Longford, Mullingar and Offaly<\/li><li>Munster \u2013 Tipperary South, Waterford, Dungarvan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ms-society.ie\/pages\/community\/services\/local\/south\/south-region-voluntary-branches\">Cork City, Cork North West, Fermoy, Kerry North, Kerry South, West Cork, West Kerry<\/a>, Clare, Limerick, Limerick West, Tipperary<\/li><li>Connacht &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ms-society.ie\/pages\/community\/services\/local\/west\/west-region-voluntary-branch\">Ballina, Galway, Roscommon, Mayo South, Tuam<\/a>, Leitrim<\/li><li>Ulster \u2013&nbsp;Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MS Ireland is the national organisation providing information, support and advocacy for the 9,000 people living with Multiple Sclerosis and their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neurology"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2019\/02\/07211608\/eye-health-man-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2019\/02\/07211608\/eye-health-man-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Health Awareness","author_link":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/author\/jennyhyndman\/"},"vicky_index_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9114,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/9114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}