A three-day bike ride along the Canal du Midi started from Toulouse on the initiative of the SEP’ossible association.
For the second consecutive year, the SEP’ossible association, in collaboration with the Neurodegenerative Diseases Center (MND) Occitanie, is organizing an event to promote physical activity in multiple sclerosis and mobilize for better management of the disease. .
10,000 people concerned in Occitania
The start of this “Along the water” project was given this Thursday, June 8 in Toulouse for a bike and handbike ride along the Canal du Midi in three stages to Claira, near Perpignan, in the Pyrenees- Oriental. Patients, family circle, carers, able-bodied, less able-bodied, actors of Multiple Sclerosis participate in this Rando vélo/handivélo.
About 25 people set off from Port Saint-Sauveur, in the heart of Toulouse, others will join the group on the various stages to meet at the finish in the Pyrénées Orientales on June 10.
This project was made possible thanks to the tireless involvement of Sébastien Kübler, patient expert and president of the SEP’ossible association. The MND Occitanie cluster, represented by its president, Dr Claude Mekies, spontaneously associated itself with this approach. The whole team of this device will be present at the start of Port Saint-Sauveur and members will pedal alongside Sébastien Kübler during these three days
Multiple sclerosis affects approximately 10,000 people in Occitanie and nearly 110,000 people in France. Current treatments only reduce the manifestations of inflammatory “flare-ups” and their frequency, which are very disabling for the people concerned.
Physical activity is part of the drug-free approach to living better with the disease. This is also the objective of the association SEP’ossible.