Webinar – What Is a Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist – And Why You Need One!

Webinar – What Is a Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist – And Why You Need One!

AnCan Foundation supports several conditions that compromise the pelvic floor as a result of surgery, radiation, or just side effects of the disease itself. It can impact continence and sexual function for all!

A non-interventional rehab solution is pelvic floor physical therapy – a sub-specialty in itself.

Join one of AnCan’s favorite superstars, urologist Dr. Rachel Rubin, and esteemed expert Dr. Tracy Sher. Together, shared how pelvic floor exercises can help you recover function!

You’ll also get a ton of questions answered, asked by MS Moderator Kim Stroeh, and Prostate Cancer moderator Dr. John Antonucci.

Watch here:

 

Special thanks to Bayer, Pfizer, Myovant Sciences, Foundation Medicine, Myriad Genetics, Janssen – Johnson & Johnson, and Telix for sponsoring this webinar.

 

Check back later for slides.

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AnCan Art Friends Art Class – March 16, 2023 – Sunset Clouds

Art Friends

Hey Friends! If you missed last Thursday’s art class, then I have the recording for you right here! Share it far and wide, and don’t forget to email your pictures to Alexa (Alexa at AnCan.org).

Supplies:

  • Canvas Size 12in x 12in or similar. Feel free to use a rectangle as well
  • Acrylic Paints: White, Blue (or whatever other Sky & sea color you want), Orange, Yellow, optional Purple
  • Palette Knife
  • Brush: 3/4in or similar
  • Optional tiny brush OR tooth pick OR cotton swab for optional birds
  • Water
  • Napkins

 

Watch here:

Have fun with this and please don’t hesitate to reach out to Hannah@AnCan.org with any additional comments & questions. Happy painting!

AnCan Art Friends – February 21, 2023 – Butterflies

AnCan Art Friends – February 21, 2023 – Butterflies

Come float away with us, as we create colorful butterflies in this art class! Watercolor pencils can be found at Dollar Tree, Michaels, Hobby Lobby, any craft supply store. You can also use regular watercolor paints, crayons, and colored pencils. Don’t feel like you need to go out and purchase an entirely new set of supplies!

 

What you’ll need 

  • Paper – watercolor paper if you are using watercolor pencils or paints
  • Art medium of your choice –  watercolor pencils, watercolor paints, crayons, or colored pencils (if using watercolor pencils or paint)
  • Brushes – any you have
  • Water + napkins

 

Watch here:

 

AnCan Art Friends – January 19, 2023 – Lilies On the Water

AnCan Art Friends – January 19, 2023 – Lilies On the Water

Get ready for a very painterly painting; We’ll squish some paint around to create a very abstracted water lily pond scene based on Claude Monet’s very famous water lilies. We’re looking for very brushy brush strokes! (say that 3 times fast!) The beauty of our virtual art classes is that they can be done anywhere, including for myself on the road in Arizona!

 

What you’ll need:

  • Canvas – 9in x 12in or larger
  • Acrylic paints – blue / brown / white / green / yellow / optional purple or any other color for water lilies
  • Brushes- flat 3/4in or similar / round size 6 or 8 / round size 4 or anything you consider tiny
  • Water + napkins + palette or paper plate

 

Watch here:

 

FDA Approves Briumvi (Ublituximab) for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis

FDA Approves Briumvi (Ublituximab) for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis

FDA Approves Briumvi (Ublituximab) for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis

briumvi, msIn case you haven’t heard the news by now, the FDA recently approved Briumvi (Ublituximab), by TG Therapeutics, for the treatment of relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis.

The drug is now the 3rd CD20 anti-b-cell therapy on the market for Multiple Sclerosis. Up until now, Ocrevus (ocrelizumab) and Kesimpta (ofatumumab) were the only B-cell targeting drugs available on the market.

This is great news, because B-cell therapies, such as the drugs named above, have all been proven highly effective as disease-modifying therapies for MS.

Given as a twice-yearly infusion, Briumvi is currently available for Relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS), Clinically-Isolated Syndrome (CIS), and Secondary-progressive MS (SPMS).

According to the MS News Today article below, “Briumvi was engineered to be more potent than other anti-CD20 therapies, allowing for lower doses and shorter infusion times.”

Read more about it here, on Multiple Sclerosis News Today

MS is a disease of the central nervous system that specifically targets the myelin sheath in the brain and spinal cord. Any time those with MS can get a new medication available to them on the market, it’s a huge victory in the fight against a disease that can take away almost every function in the human body.

If you’re one of us in the MS “club”, join us every 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month for our MS group meeting here