Aaron Boster

It's kind of a unique thing to multiple sclerosis, but it's extremely real.

We in Ohio have four seasons, and a lot of my patients during the winter months, they get stiff because spasticity gets worse when you're cold.

And then during the summer months, they get, quote, floppy or noodley.

And that's because these areas of damage, that short circuit, they don't work very well when it gets hot out.

It's really frustrating.

So a lot of times when we diagnose someone with MS, one of the things that I need them to do is to adopt exercise as part of their lifestyle.

Mm-hmm.

And many adults or young adults, the last time they really exercised was the glory days of high school when they had boundless energy.

You know, their neurological functional reserve was unprecedented.

You know, they could skip a night of sleep.

They didn't care.

And that's what they remember.

And so they take that spirit into the gym and they have a wonderful day.

They really they do all the things.

And then they're in bed for two days or three days.

And so instead, what I need to help families understand is you want to use the next day as an assessment of if you overdid it.

So if you do 10 minutes on the treadmill and you think that's a nothing, but the next day you're having trouble walking, it wasn't a nothing.

It was actually too much.

And so slow and steady wins the race.

And there's ample data that people impacted by MS who do exercise as part of their lifestyle, they're less disabled in their lives, they maintain cognition, and they handle attacks better.