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Living Well with MS

John Sinner, diagnosed with MS in 1995, credits Living Well with MS with changing his life.

A life interrupted...doesn't need to be a life deferred. Move forward after an MS diagnosis.

Discover what you can do to positively impact your health and well-being.

Living Well with MS is an extraordinary program designed to help those newly diagnosed better understand MS and develop lifestyle strategies that can help diminish the effects of the disease. In just 12 weeks you will gain the tools and knowledge you need to build your personal plan for living well with MS.

A team of highly skilled medical, fitness, nutrition and behavioral health specialists in MS will help you:

  • develop a comprehensive personal fitness and nutrition plan
  • understand and better manage MS symptoms
  • develop positive emotional and spiritual health practices to use across your lifetime
  • increase your ability to cope with the diagnosis and unpredictability of MS
  • meet others living with MS, just like you, in a setting of shared support.

Experience the online and in-person combination this course has to offer. Online you will find meet all of your classmates and access up-to-date and current information in a user-friendly, highly interactive classroom. In-person you will meet fellow participants in your local area each week for the fitness component of the course.

Winter Session Now Enrolling. Find Your Fitness location:

The Marilyn Hilton MS Achievement Center at UCLA, West Los Angeles
Contact: julia.santiago@nmss.org  310.479.4456

Casa Colina Centers for Rehabilitation, Pomona
Contact: todd.eckel@nmss.org 909.949.1363

Westlake Physical Therapy, Thousand Oaks
Contact: jeanette.chian@nmss.org 805.682.8783

San Joaquin Valley Rehabilitation, Fresno
Contact: susan.mattison@nmss.org 559.439.2154

Total Woman Fitness Centers, Bakersfield
Contact: kim.kotrla@nmss.org 661.321.9512

San Luis Sports Therapy, San Luis Obispo
Contact: devin.wallace@nmss.org 805.772.2046

World Gym, Palm Desert
Contact: suellen.evavold@nmss.org 760.776.5740

Application deadline January 15, 2010. Contact us today to enroll.

The Eric Small Centers for Optimal Living with MS are supported in part by a generous grant from the Flora L. Thornton Foundation. The Marilyn Hilton MS Achievement Center at UCLA is supported by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.