Remitting Recurrent Multiple Sclerosis: Clinical Assessment findings from a kinesiological and Speech pathologist perspective

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Multiple sclerosis is a demyelinating, multicenter, progressive and fluctuating autoimmune disease that affects central nervous system and it causes disability among young adults. To describe the findings of the physical examination of a relapsing-remitting multiple scle-rosis (RRMS) patient, from a physical and speech therapy view. METHOD: Non-experimental descriptive cross-sectional design. The subject has an early stage (RRMS), which was diagnosed with specific guidelines. RESULTS: The patient shows cognitive, communicative, motor, respi-ratory and mental disorders. ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION: the depressed diaphragmatic mus-cle function that presents the patient and their likely neuromuscular respiratory complications depend on the degree of involvement and progression of the disease and outbreaks that may affect the respiratory centers of CNS. However, the respiratory symptoms do not correlated with the degree of respiratory compromise or severity of disease due to overlapping of rehabilitation processes. CONCLUSIONS: Permanent multidisciplinary intervention is required, because of the disorders that patient showed. Besides, standardized test for physical and speech therapy are needed, which allows to evaluate multiple sclerosis patients in Chile.