Walk MS is on the Move!

Hundreds Will Walk To Create a World Free of MS

at Walk MS Southeast Missouri on April 17

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI— Nearly 400 people are expected to raise $42,000 to support cutting-edge research and life-changing programs and services for people living with MS at the annual Walk MS Southeast Missouri event taking place on April 17 on the SEMO campus. 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 Southeast Missouri attracts friends and families of people affected by MS, people living with MS, corporate teams, and individuals who want to help end MS forever. Participants have the option of walking one to two miles of fully accessible routes. Each year, nearly 333,000 people walk to create a world free of MS across the country.

WHEN: April 17, 2016; Registration begins at Noon, Walk MS begins at 1:00 p.m.

NEW LOCATION: SEMO North Rec Center, 750 New Madrid Cape Girardeau, MO

PARTICIPATION/ VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION: Call 855-372-1331 or register online: www.walkms.org or email: sharon.hileman@nmss.org

WHY: Proceeds raised will support cutting-edge MS research and life-changing programs and services for the 7,700 people living with MS in Eastern Missouri and Illinois.

About the National Multiple Sclerosis Society

The National MS Society’s groundbreaking $250 million No Opportunity Wasted (NOW) campaign, which successfully concluded in December 2015, has launched more MS research and driven more life-changing progress than has occurred at any other time in the Society’s history.

Since the start of the NOW campaign in 2010, the Society has launched 818 new research projects, including 28 commercial research partnerships aimed at overcoming barriers to commercial development to propel promising new therapies, 71 clinical trials, 141 projects testing rehabilitation and wellness approaches, and 137 grants to train promising MS researchers.

In five short years, the campaign has brought in more than one-quarter of the Society’s total research investments since its founding in 1946, and has accelerated vital research breakthroughs toward stopping the MS in its tracks, restoring what has been lost, and ending MS forever.

About Multiple Sclerosis

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 people worldwide.