About Us
Everyone living with multiple sclerosis can have hope that a better quality of life is possible
Clinically proven, innovative education and exercise programmes that change the lives of people living with multiple sclerosis.
About MS Get a Head Start – the story so far
MS Get a Head Start (MS GHS) was first created in 2013 when Gilly Davy was working as a senior neurological physiotherapist and clinical educator at the Advance Rehab Centre in Sydney, Australia. People living with MS were not being referred for rehabilitation at diagnosis and were struggling to exercise or stay active due to fear about making their MS worse, and a large element of ‘vagueness’ around exercise prescription in general for both the individual with MS and the therapist trying to deliver the exercise. After extensive research and clinical experience, Gilly created the 6-week programme of intensive interval-based exercise training, combined with six education topics and exercise behaviour change strategies. The innovative programme is ultimately geared towards empowering self-management of MS.
The 6-week programme produced outstanding clinical results…..however, Gilly quickly realised that this programme and information on exercise for MS needed to be available to everyone living with MS. Coupled with the understanding that MS-specific rehabilitation is not well taught to health professionals as undergraduates and extremely limited post-grad learning opportunities. She started focusing on providing world-leading education and training for health professionals on how to provide life-changing rehabilitation for people living with MS.
Bringing us up to the current day where MS Get a Head Start is a platform that provides exercise and education programmes to improve the lives of those living with MS either directly or by upskilling health professionals to increase the reach of the impact.
