Sailing as rehabilitation
We are attending the annual ECTRIMS conference, the world’s largest MS conference, in the Bella Center in my hometown, Copenhagen. It’s really special to be here again - 11 years ago, in 2013, we were also present at the Bella Center, announcing our global circumnavigation. This year we are presenting the preliminary data from our research project in which we investigate the outcome on a variety of parameters on our MS crew when participating in our sailing activities. Not surprisingly our results indicate a positive effect on quality of life, self-efficacy, experience of symptoms, depression and anxiety. We are continuously collecting data in a prospective cohort study to enhance the quality of our results. We want to describe in a scientific and systematic way - as far as possible - the positive effect of Oceans of Hope on people with MS (PwMS). This is to better be able to communicate with others about what we do - and in the end to get more PwMS out into the world, into life. Please see our posters attached.
A great thank you to our big team of researchers in the Oceans of Hope Research Unit - and a special thanks to ph.d. student Jon Skovgaard Jensen and ph.d. student Trine Nielsen for being. The first author on our abstracts.
Read more about the Oceans of Hope Research Unit on https://www.oceansofhope.org/aktiviteter/forskning/
Our research is supported by the Trigon Foundation and conducted in collaboration with University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen University, Aarhus University, Danish Multiple Sclerosis Center and Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
