Multiple Sclerosis - seeking STEM therapeutic research developments in a realistic virtual Harbin / earth, both for cold water benefits of movement / exercise ... as well as at the atomic and cellular levels for modeling and research ... and re these MIT articles and successes/breakthroughs ...

Could people with Multiple Sclerosis with access to swimming pools (cool pools of water), for example, don a digital mask, as they walk around in the realistic Harbin Hot Springs' cool swimming pool? Have people with MS already found benefits at Harbin Hot Springs, with its various pool temperatures?

Could, for example, Pamela Sutherland - https://twitter.com/Ltd_To_Two - and see TOO her blog - https://livinginalimitedworld.com- living with MS in Glasgow, Scotland, do so, and flourish in new ways, finding freedom?

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In searching on "MIT and multiple sclerosis" and similar, I found ...

Group Members

Principal Investigator

Krystyn J. Van Vliet

Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Department of Biological Engineering
[Biography, Research, Teaching & Leadership]

Email: krystyn at mit dot eduPhone: 617.253.3315 (e-mail preferred)
Office: MIT Room 8-237
Mail: MIT Room 8-237; 77 Massachusetts Avenue; Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

Anna Jagielska

PhD, University of Warsaw, Department of Chemistry, Poland

Anna is interested in understanding the interplay between in vivo chemomechanical environment and stem cell differentiation, with an ultimate goal of improving stem cell based therapies. She is currently focused on the role of mechanical factors in neural stem cell differentiation and myelin repair in neurodegenerative diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis. Anna’s past research fields include quantum chemistry (PhD), and computational biology and biophysics (postdoctoral).

http://kjvvgroup.mit.edu/?page_id=1916

Collegiate inventors awarded 2017 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

http://news.mit.edu/2017/collegiate-inventors-awarded-lemelson-mit-student-prize-0419

BIOE Student Wins Prestigious Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

Lisa Tostanoski

Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BIOE) Ph.D. student Lisa Tostanoski has won a $15,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for efforts to develop two novel biomaterials-based strategies to combat multiple sclerosis (MS) and other autoimmune diseases.

http://bioe.umd.edu/news/news_story.php?id=10479

University of Maryland grad student restores movement to mice crippled with multiple sclerosis
http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-lemelson-award-20170506-story.html

National MS Society ...
https://secure.nationalmssociety.org/site/SPageServer/?NONCE_TOKEN=723D2D5E6111E515A2539D34005FF5B9&pagename=HOM_INVOLVED_whygive_blewett

"Hello

For as long as I can remember I have felt light headed after an occasional hot bath. They were never particularly hot, just hot enough to be pleasant.

About 10 years ago (I was 18 then) I fainted completely following a bath."
https://overcomingms.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=648

Heat & Temperature Sensitivity

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Living-Well-With-MS/Diet-Exercise-Healthy-Behaviors/Heat-Temperature-Sensitivity

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/08/08/mit-students-patient-collaborate-app/bW0DDqu7fGz55fmuz27ZKO/story.html

Continuing the Legacy: Assistive Technologies at MIT

https://www.eecs.mit.edu/news-events/media/continuing-legacy-assistive-technologies-mit

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Assistive Technologies' wiki subject page at World University ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Assistive_Technologies ...
planned in all countries' official languages +

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A realistic virtual Harbin would also facilitate brain wave head set research in combination with digital masks potentially from a swimming pool ... including especially sociality around nudity ... (see, Pamela Sutherland's Twitter profile in these regards ... - https://twitter.com/Ltd_To_Two -)

Consumer-grade EEG devices: are they usable for control tasks?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4806709/

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Exercise — or not — in Water

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Resources-Support/Library-Education-Programs/You-CAN/Exercise-%E2%80%94-or-not-%E2%80%94-in-Water

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Dancing in water for movement benefits with MS?

http://www.msunites.com/wp-content/uploads/Aquatic-Aerobics.jpg
(http://www.msunites.com/category/cat-living-with-ms/cat-living-with-ms-exercise/)

See, too, re MS and Yoga -
http://www.msunites.com/cmsc-2016-coverage-ms-and-yoga-author-and-instructor-says-ancient-discipline-can-help-patients-in-many-ways/

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And here are some Dr. Andy Weil MD articles on MS ...

Multiple Sclerosis

What is multiple sclerosis?

https://www.drweil.com/health-wellness/body-mind-spirit/autoimmune-disorders/multiple-sclerosis/

Are There Natural Remedies for Multiple Sclerosis?

https://www.drweil.com/health-wellness/body-mind-spirit/autoimmune-disorders/are-there-natural-remedies-for-multiple-sclerosis/

Bogus Approach To Multiple Sclerosis?

https://www.drweil.com/health-wellness/body-mind-spirit/disease-disorders/new-approach-to-multiple-sclerosis/

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What's up with watsu? Controversial treatment blends massage therapy, water
http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/news/Feb2001/ContraversialFormOfPhysicalTherapy.html
... "Watsu is effective for arthritis, fibromyalgia, back pain, knee or ankle pain, head injuries, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and chronic fatigue, practitioners say." ...

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(I have a slow internet connection here (on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts), so can't add all the interesting titles of the above MS articles and web pages - and the potential here for scientific developments and breakthroughs).