(April 7, 2016) Nearly 850 people are expected to raise $100,000 to support cutting-edge research and life-changing programs and services for people living with MS during the annual Walk MS, taking place on Saturday, April 9 in Ocean City and Sunday, April 10 in Salisbury.
Walk MS, is an opportunity for people living with MS and those who care about them to connect and join together to be inspired and raise critical funds for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Walk MS attracts friends and families of people affected by MS, people living with MS, corporate teams, and individuals who want to help end the disease forever. Each year, nearly 333,000 people walk to create a world free of MS across the country.
Registration will begin at 8 a.m. on the Boardwalk at the inlet, on April 9 in Ocean City. The walk will start at 9 a.m. There are 5K and 1-mile walk options available.
Visit www.walkms.org, call 443-641-1227 or email whitney.pogwist@nmss.org for more information.
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society mobilizes people and resources to drive research for a cure and to address the challenges of everyone affected by MS. In 2015, the Society invested $50.2 million to advance more than 380 research projects around the world in order to stop MS in its tracks, restore what has been lost and end MS forever. Through its comprehensive nationwide network of programs and services, it also helped more than one million people affected by MS connect to the people, information and resources needed to live their best lives.
Multiple sclerosis, an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system, interrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis.
The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are moving us closer to a world free of MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 2.3 million worldwide.
Walk MS, is an opportunity for people living with MS and those who care about them to connect and join together to be inspired and raise critical funds for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Walk MS attracts friends and families of people affected by MS, people living with MS, corporate teams, and individuals who want to help end the disease forever. Each year, nearly 333,000 people walk to create a world free of MS across the country.
Registration will begin at 8 a.m. on the Boardwalk at the inlet, on April 9 in Ocean City. The walk will start at 9 a.m. There are 5K and 1-mile walk options available.
Visit www.walkms.org, call 443-641-1227 or email whitney.pogwist@nmss.org for more information.
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society mobilizes people and resources to drive research for a cure and to address the challenges of everyone affected by MS. In 2015, the Society invested $50.2 million to advance more than 380 research projects around the world in order to stop MS in its tracks, restore what has been lost and end MS forever. Through its comprehensive nationwide network of programs and services, it also helped more than one million people affected by MS connect to the people, information and resources needed to live their best lives.
Multiple sclerosis, an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system, interrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis.
The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are moving us closer to a world free of MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 2.3 million worldwide.