The Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme allows you to claim back health related transport costs if you receive benefits based on your income. The scheme covers visits to hospital for treatment or clinical care. It doesn't cover visiting other people in hospital or going to regular GP or dentist visits.

Because of the wide range of possible symptoms of multiple sclerosis, you may see a number of different health professionals. Who you see depends on how active your MS is, what symptoms you have, what treatments are available and the way that the local MS service works.

Although hearing loss or deafness is not a common symptom of multiple sclerosis, people can experience problems with hearing, such as tinnitus (ringing in the ears) or sudden hearing loss. Other hearing problems that can occur include the difficulty in understanding speech against a noisy background or being more sensitive to noise (hyperacusis).

Some people with MS find that their symptoms get worse when they get hot. Here’s more on why this can happen and a range of ideas to help you manage heat sensitivity (Uhthoff’s phenomenon).

Research into a possible role of the hepatitis B vaccination in increasing risk for the onset of multiple sclerosis has been inconclusive. Find out more in this A-Z entry.

Hippotherapy is a form of physiotherapy that uses the motion of the walking horse to provide therapeutic movement to the rider.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) was first recognised as a condition in the middle of the 19th century. Prior to this time, there are reports of a few instances of what may have been MS, although the variety of symptoms, the range of other possible causes and the incompleteness of records make these impossible to confirm.

Home improvement agencies (HIA) are locally based, non-profit organisations offering support for people making adaptations or improvements to their home. Find out more in this A-Z entry.

Homeopathy is a complementary system of medicine that was developed in Germany at the end of the eighteenth century. It employs the basic principle of 'let like cure like'. This is based on the theory that treating a person with a substance which produces the symptoms of an illness in a healthy person may help to cure the same symptoms in a person with an illness or condition.