Blog – Matt Cavallo, MPH

Streamline Your Daily Activities with MS

Posted on January 11, 2017January 20, 2018 Matt Cavallo3 Comments

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Utilizing Rehabilitation Professionals in Recovery of an MS Relapse

Posted on May 18, 2016December 29, 2016 Matt Cavallo5 Comments

Many of you have read my previous article about how a denied insurance authorization led me to an MS relapse, rendering me nonfunctional on my right side. As it turned out, MRI studies revealed that I had two new active lesions on my brain and one on the right side of my cervical spine that […]

Matt Cavallo shares his personal experience with how his dog helps him cope with his multiple sclerosis every day

The Healing Power of Pets

Posted on April 18, 2016January 22, 2018 Matt Cavallo1 Comment

**Originally posted by Matt Cavallo on Mango Health at http://blog.mangohealth.com/post/143011766224/the-healing-power-of-pets** I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the spring of 2005, and I was laying in my hospital bed wondering if I was ever going to walk again. A month after my hospital discharge, I was devastated to find out at the follow-up appointment […]

Blurry vision is a symptom of optic neuritis

An Optic Neuritis Relapse

Posted on March 30, 2016December 29, 2016 Matt Cavallo3 Comments

Many of you have followed my chronicles with MS for years. In honor of MS Education and Awareness Month, I wanted to share a personal story of what it is like to go through a bout of optic neuritis. This is the true story of what happened to me in February 2006. I first posted […]

Breaking the Chain of Toxic Relationships with MS

Posted on February 29, 2016December 29, 2016 Matt Cavallo6 Comments

I come from a large, close-knit Italian family that lives in a small town about eighteen miles south of Boston. When I was first being diagnosed with MS, my little brother was on a downward spiral into the world of drug addiction. He is only eighteen months younger than me and as a result we […]

Exercise and MS can be tough but biking is an exercise that is easy on the body

2016 – A Work-in-Progress

Posted on January 11, 2016December 29, 2016 Matt CavalloLeave a comment

Last year at this time I wrote about how small changes can make a big difference in the New Year. Some of the advice from that post included: developing a financial plan, changing eating habits, exercising, getting back on your schedule and setting attainable goals. I used this advice to make major changes in my […]

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5 Steps to Making Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick (This Year)

Posted on January 1, 2016December 30, 2016 Matt Cavallo2 Comments

A resolution is a change in behavior and as you know, we are creatures of habit. And most of us don’t like change. As a person living with multiple sclerosis, my resolutions typically center around wellness or diet initiatives that I believe will help me better manage my MS. As I write this, the local […]

Finding the Strength to Fight MS for the Holidays

Posted on December 16, 2015December 29, 2016 Matt CavalloLeave a comment

In September of 2010, I was faced with a devastating decision. I was experiencing severe spinal stenosis and a fractured C6 vertebra, which my doctors believed was a result of complications due to my initial onset of transverse myelitis five years earlier. My decision was to have an emergency cervical fusion to address the problem […]

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Catching a Robot Catfish in Social Media Support Groups

Posted on October 28, 2015December 29, 2016 Matt Cavallo8 Comments

Having a chronic illness, like multiple sclerosis, can be lonely and isolating. Sometimes it is hard to talk to your loved ones because, try as they might, they just don’t understand what you are going through. Before the internet, in order to find other people with similar circumstances, one would have to go out and […]

Remembering Olympian Jimmie Heuga and his Can Do Spirit

Posted on September 22, 2015December 29, 2016 Matt Cavallo1 Comment

Some of us are born to do certain things in life. James Frederic “Jimmie” Heuga was born to ski. Jimmie began competitive skiing at age five and appeared in a Warren Miller film at age nine. In 1958, Jimmie became the youngest man ever to make the US Ski Team. In 1963, he won the […]