The woman sits in her wheelchair at one end of a ping-pong table and focuses intently on the small white ball as it bounces toward her. She readies her paddle, then smacks the ball perfectly, sending a winner back across the net.

Colorado Mesa University is fostering breakthrough strides in neurology exploration via table tennis. On April 6, the CMU Table Tennis Club and Grand Junction NeuroPongTM chapter are teaming up to raise money and awareness for people with multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson’s and dementia.

It might just seem like a fun game to play with your children. But doctors could soon be prescribing table tennis as a treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) after a series of ‘ping pong clinics’ reported a remarkable improvement in symptoms among their patients.

Antonio Barbera was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2016. A year later, he would discover what makes it so devastating: The disease can change the lives of those it affects without warning.

The benefits of table tennis for people with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's were known, now, thanks to the work of Antonio Barbera (in the center of the photo with friends from TT 2009), an Italian doctor who graduated in Messina and moved to the United States more than 20 years ago, it has been understood that it is able to help multiple sclerosis sufferers.