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The Mid Ulster Branch of the Multiple Sclerosis Society Northern Ireland was founded in 1976 and there are still a number of the founder members active in the Branch. We cover an area from Kilrea in the north to Pomeroy in the south and from Draperstown in the west to Toome and the River Bann in the east. The largest towns are Cookstown, Magherafelt and Maghera. Our Branch meets on a monthly basis on the last Tuesday at Unit 3 at Woorkspace Rainey St. Magherafelt. Our Support Group meets at Maghera Day Centre on a Thursday morning at 10.30am. The Branch can offer people with MS and their carers, information, Reflexology, Reiki, Indian head massage and an MS counsellor.

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Multiple sclerosis is one of the most common diseases
of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord).

MS is an inflammatory demyelinating condition. Myelin is a fatty material that insulates nerves, acting much like the covering of an electric wire and allowing the nerve to transmit its impulses rapidly. It is the speed and efficiency with which these impulses are conducted that permits smooth, rapid and co-ordinated movements to be performed with little conscious effort.

In multiple sclerosis, the loss of myelin (demyelination) is accompanied by a disruption in the ability of the nerves to conduct electrical impulses to and from the brain and this produces the various symptoms of MS. The sites where myelin is lost (plaques or lesions) appear as hardened (scar) areas: in multiple sclerosis these scars appear at different times and in different areas of the brain and spinal cord. The term multiple sclerosis means, literally, many scars.

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