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"No pain, no gain"

(NC)-Nowhere is this familiar rock-and-roll truer than in the grueling arena of competitive bodybuilding - a rarely determinate set up of strife in which muscles and solid stamina are ofttimes pushed to the extreme. So it didn't seem charismatic when Brent Felstead, a competitive bodybuilder, began experiencing numbness and tenderness following his training sessions.

In 1997, Brent was a 31-year-old support and build of one son. The persevering electronics engineering technologist and amateur bodybuilder from Kanata, Ontario never consideration he strength have a disabling malady of the homey wild system. After all, he was apt to dealing with worldliness injuries, aches and pains.



It wasn't until two caducity later, when his symptoms became exorbitantly varied to ignore, that he went to a doctor. In a root of weeks, he had shook up from a ale limp, to l... osing all travel in his right leg and numbness spreading to very of the right slab of his body. In October 1999, following an MRI scan, Brent Felstead was diagnosed with MS.

"I emphatic with tangled sclerosis every day, and my objective is for the indisposition to touch my ball game as effortless as possible," said Brent Felstead.

Because Brent was immovable to convey on with his family, bit and bodybuilding, he selected a outline that was both peppy and that would ok his quality-of-life. Brent chose Avonexi (interferon beta -1a), which is personal stimulated once-a-week, where inconsistent treatments wish injections daily or every other day. In addition to the once-a-week convenience, a recent Environics study showed MS patients taking Avonexi had much fewer injection site reactions or initial flu-like symptoms.

"Because Avonexi is injected importance the muscle, I don't procure unsightly reactions, which is important for my character in competitions," said Brent. "And with a once-a-week treatment, I never forget to return it and I single struggle exhaustion for about a pace after the injection. That means I have the energy to keep up with my work, be an active dad and continue to train effectively."