Ulrik Dalgas

[Luke Connolly @LukeConnolly]

🚨 3-year PhD studentship
With myself, Prof Jenny Freeman and @RaulBescos at UoP Investigating feasible cooling strategies for people with multiple sclerosis experiencing heat-sensitivity (Oct '22)
https://t.co/CmRrdBfOCV
🗓️ Deadline: 13/5/22

[Hilary Gunn @hilsgunn]

...and now for something completely different.... new PhD studentship opportunity!
Developing a prototype to model spasticity and hypertonia as a tool to improve clinical teaching and research outcomes advert page
https://t.co/PtCx0vzdly

[Morten Riemenschneider @mortenriemen]

@GavinGiovannoni (1/5)
Dear Gavin.
The authors of the study you are linking finds it necessary to add a comment to this post, as we also did to the original post.

[Morten Riemenschneider @mortenriemen]

@GavinGiovannoni (4/5) We are not sure what you mean by ‘intensive’ exercise? But please remember, as also stated in the paper and in the direct message to you; the EMSES study was high intensity exercise.

[Morten Riemenschneider @mortenriemen]

@GavinGiovannoni (2/5) To answer your rhetorical question: we do believe that our study can affect funding for future exercise research in MS – positively! The explorative neuroprotective effects found at a microstructural level calls for (and can serve as a rationale) for future studies.

[Morten Riemenschneider @mortenriemen]

@GavinGiovannoni (5/5) Again, we are looking forward to your future contribution to this important field. On behalf of the authors, Morten Riemenschneider and Ulrik Dalgas.

[Morten Riemenschneider @mortenriemen]

@GavinGiovannoni (3/5) Moreover, the results of the EMSES study also indicate that early supervised aerobic exercise build physical functional reserve capacity. Data will soon be published. This can also be used as an argument FOR more funding for exercise research in MS.

[Morten Riemenschneider @mortenriemen]

@GavinGiovannoni (7/7) We are looking forward to your response on our detailed direct message to you. On behalf of the authors: Morten Riemenschneider, Lars Hvid, Egon Stenager, and Ulrik Dalgas.

[Morten Riemenschneider @mortenriemen]

@GavinGiovannoni (6/7) Last, but not least, we are very thrilled that you and others are planning studies in the field of exercise, MS and disease-modification and neuroprotection, and we are looking forward to your contribution.

[Morten Riemenschneider @mortenriemen]

@GavinGiovannoni (5/7) If you define HIIT otherwise, we are curious to hear your thoughts on physiological and pathological differences induced by your definition of HIIT and the exercise protocol applied in our study?

[Morten Riemenschneider @mortenriemen]

@GavinGiovannoni (4/7) You propose: “They should have studied HIIT”. Would that have changed the findings? Based on the definition of HIIT from ACSM, we did study HIIT, so in that case; no.

[Morten Riemenschneider @mortenriemen]

@GavinGiovannoni (3/7) To answer “why did they use aerobic exercise”: Please have a look in our published study protocol, where you will find the evidence-based rationale and relevant references. Hopefully you have read this before concluding that we “studied the wrong exercise format”.

[Morten Riemenschneider @mortenriemen]

@GavinGiovannoni (2/7) To clarify; The authors do not think (or state in the paper) that we should “give up on studying exercise as a DMT for MS”! This should be clear from the discussion in the paper, which we assume you have read thoroughly before indicating the opposite in your headline.

[Morten Riemenschneider @mortenriemen]

@GavinGiovannoni (1/7)
Dear @GavinGiovannoni.
Thank you for your interest in our research.
On behalf of the authors of the study you are linking, I would like to add some comments to your interesting tweet.

[Morten Riemenschneider @mortenriemen]

Happy to share the main results from my PhD “The Early MS Exercise Study (EMSES)”.

https://t.co/CCx13faL6Z

Stay tuned for the publication of the results on physical and cognitive function.

… and an open invitation for future research in this important area of early rehab!

[Mette D Diechmann @MetteDDiechmann]

Exercise increases chronic levels of BDNF in multiple sclerosis. Studies are few and results inconclusive on other neurotrophic factors.
https://t.co/tn4rsIs5Xp
Thank you @HvidLars @CampbelEv @CoulterEH @LornaPaul @UDalgas for supervision and your collaboration on my first paper!