AMES held a meeting of people affected by myasthenia.
Madrid, November 2011- aimed at family and affected all Spain, the meeting was attended in its opening interventions by the Mayor of Valladolid, Francisco Javier León la Riva, and the Provincial delegate of Valladolid, Rosa Mª Tejero MartÃn.
The day featured different workshops as the of Mindfulness ”, who helped the participants to learn how to use the wisdom of the body and mind to face stress, pain and illness. It also included two presentations that provided information and overcome doubts about the disease and address the psychological aspects in those affected; as well as the presentation of different projects of AMES, as tele-assistance programme for affected of Myasthenia Gravis.
Myasthenia is a disease of unknown origin, chronic, autoimmune approximately 6,000 people in Spain and is characterized by weakness and fatigue of the skeletal or volunteers from the exclusive body muscles. Weakness and fatigue are the result of a malfunction in the neuromuscular junction, which in most cases is caused by the existence of some antibodies that block neuromuscular transmission.
The meeting took place the last Saturday 12 of November, 2011 10: 00 to 14: 00 hours, in the civic area south of the city Valladolid Centre (Juan Austria Plaza, no. 11 – room 24)
to see the PDF brochure of the encounter of people affected by Myasthenia Gravis, congenital and their family members, click here
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