Falls happen often to people with MS and they can make a problematic situation more severe. But how can they be prevented. We talk about it.   You can read the transcripted version of the interview on my blog: https://ms-perspektive.com/013-laurits-madsen

Today I’m talking with Laurits Taul Madsen about how falls can be prevented for people living with MS. What reasons increase the risk of falls and what effective countermeasures you can take? The better shape you are in and the healthier your bones are, the less serious falls are and they also occur less often. For sure a very important topic as falls happen very often for people with MS.

Table of Contents

• Introduction - Who is Laurits Taul Madsen?
• Severity of falls caused by MS
• Reason for falling MS
• How to prevent falling
• Farewell

Introduction - Who is Laurits Taul Madsen?

My name is Laurits. I’m from Denmark, a PhD student in Aarhus, working with Professor Ulrik Dalgas. I’ve studied sports science and was done in 2018 with my master’s. And afterwards I was hired as a scientific research assistant on the COGEX project, the cognition and exercise, big project on progressive MS and cognition. And in 2021, I started my PhD, which is an exercise. And we try to look at these booster sessions, so how can we keep people active over time? And when I’m not doing research, I live in the countryside with my wife and little daughter, Gertrude. And I like to play golf when there’s time for that. But it’s not a lot of time with both work and kid. 

How and where can interested people follow your research activities?

I think if they follow on LinkedIn there, we usually put most of our research up on LinkedIn. And if they want to dig even deeper, the research gate is a good place. Researchgate.net, here you can find all your favorite experts and follow their latest research. 

Laurits Taul Madsen on:

• LinkedIn
• ResearchGate

Is there anything else you would like to share with the listeners?

Do exercise. No, I don’t think I have any specifics. But it’s important to say that when we talk about, we have a tendency to track our own theme or topic up and perhaps forget a bit about other things. Now we look at falls and neuromuscular function, but fall is one symptom. There are a lot of other symptoms and neuromuscular function is only one part of the risks in falling. So there are a lot of other symptoms important for this as well. So, we need to be open. I think that’s my advice to other researchers and general people with MS, that there are a lot of symptoms and a lot of different ways to improve the different symptoms. 

Nele Handwerker: Laurits, thank you very much. Thank you very much for all your research you have done so far with your colleagues. And I will follow the things you are doing on LinkedIn and maybe you are coming at another point back to the podcast.

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Maybe you are interestes as well on this article and podcast episode:

• #009: Motoric Cognitive Risk (MCR) Syndrome in MS. Interview with Dr. Alon Kalron

See you soon and try to make the best out of your life and start your workout or keep doing it, Nele

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