AZ Alma hospital in Eeklo tests glove that mimics symptoms of multiple sclerosis

The glove is an important tool to better understand people with MS and therefore to better care for them. “You can imagine strength disorders, but how you feel certain things with your hand and how disturbing that can be is much harder to imagine,” Decoo continues. “With the glove you can make a piece of the world of MS patients clear and experience it to the caregiver.” In this way you as a supervisor, caregiver or partner can better assess and understand how everything feels. It goes without saying that they can respond better to the needs of someone with MS. And those can be small things, says Danny Decoo: “Sometimes tablets with a pen are offered for studies, but that is too difficult for MS patients. You just have to experience this yourself first.”