Advances in medicine and pharmacology, changes in general medical terminology, and a dynamic rehabilitation environment make Medical and PsychosocialAspects of Chronic Illness and Disability a much-needed addition to the rehabilitation literature. This fully revised and expanded Second Edition provides basic medical information on disability for ...
Is it possible to live a healthy life despite a chronic illness? The surprising answer is yes, according to this enduringly popular book. Filled with hundreds of tips, suggestions, and strategies, "Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions" offers practical solutions in clear language. The book explains how to develop and maintain exercise and ...
A health writer addresses the little-known syndrome that lies behind many diseases, such as heart disease, obesity, asthma, etc. Over time, low-grade inflammation can be harmful to our health. Challem describes the connection between inflammation and disease, and offers a plan to fight inflammation through proper nutrition. He offers diet plans ...
This book reveals the hidden connection between many of the diseases of aging - inflammation - and presents a complete program for maintaining good health. It also: explains the cutting-edge research that reveals inflammation as the culprit behind many diseases related to aging, including heart disease, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's Disease, and even ...
Having coined the term "Healthy Survivor" while dealing with her own chronic lymphoma, Harpham encourages people dealing with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or any prolonged illness to do all they can to overcome disease and live life to the fullest.
Millions of people suffer from invisible chronic illness, that is, disease characterized by chronicity and by symptoms that are not externally apparent. Sufferers may look well and even function normally while suffering extreme fatigue or pain or any number of distressing symptoms from such illnesses as MS, ME, chronic fatigue syndrome, migraine ...
Using the award-winning Incredibly Easy! style, this pocket-sized guide provides time-starved nurses with critical information on managing approximately 100 of the most challenging chronic disorders. The book delivers information quickly in a streamlined, bulleted format, with numerous illustrations, recurring logos, and memory joggers. Chapters ...
Based on twenty years of clinical experience studying and treating chronic illness, a Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist argues that diagnosing illness is an art tragically neglected by modern medical training, and presents a compelling case for bridging the gap between patient and doctor.
Completely rewritten to include the most recent research and nursing strategies, the 3rd edition expands nurses' perceptions of persons with long-term health problems in a way that emphasizes patient and family power resources. The book includes nursing assessment, diagnosis, interventions, conceptual models, and related research.
yoga to maintain good health. The entire program, based on the author's 20 years of experience as a yoga practitioner and teacher, is a positive step that people with any degree of lessened physical ability can take to promote a sense of well-being and healing.
Now in paperback comes this inspiring testament from a woman with a life-threatening illness who nonetheless leads a blessedly normal life. This is her empowering, step-by-step guide to taking charge of one's own health care.
Get an updated and quick reference for the successful exercise management of 46 chronic diseases and disabilities. The second edition of the landmark text published in 1997 includes eight new conditions and features updated information, current research, and the latest scientific developments to help you-prescribe exercise programming and testing ...
Foreword by Mehmet Oz, co-author of YOU: ON A DIET and YOU: AN OWNER'S MANUAL. This ground-breaking book reveals how insulin resistance is linked to heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, overweight, childhood behavioral disorders, depression, high blood pressure, and more. It also provides information on how to get insulin under control. While ...
"Managing Chronic Disorders" provides practical, authoritative guidance on day-to-day management of more than 100 chronic disorders and includes over 300 reproducible patient-teaching aids. Part 1 presents complete information on each disorder, including causes, pathophysiology, assessment findings, diagnosis, treatment, special considerations, ...
The Human Genome Project is producing a revolution in health, raising the prospect of averting hereditary diseases by re-programming our genes. Having identified genes linked to diseases such as cancer, diabetes and arthritis, researchers have shown that unfavourable genetic messages can be improved by changes in lifestyle, diet and environment. ...
Written by a young woman with Crohn's disease, this book is a source of strength, inspiration, and sound advice for young people diagnosed with chronic illnesses. It helps them learn to cope, know they're not alone, and make the most of the wonderful opportunities that lie ahead. B&W photos.
Eminent biologist Ewald challenges conventional medical thought with the thesis that germs, more than our genes, cause the most important maladies of our time, including heart attacks, strokes, Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, and cancers.
When we live with a chronic illness or disability, our spirit is tested. And though we may have no say in our sickness, how we meet its spiritual challenge is entirely up to us. This is the message of Martha Cleveland's heartening book, which maps the spiral of emotional pain that steals the energy of the chronically ill--and shows how to turn ...
A guide offering practical and theoretical exercise programming information for development with special needs individuals. The contributors outline 40 different conditions in the areas of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, metabolic diseases, immunological/hematological disorders, orthopedic d
Dr. Appleton draws on her own decade-long study and expertise as a health professional to identify inflammation as the cause of many degenerative diseases, and to detail the various non-drug treatments that are available.
Critical illness is a fact of life. Even those of us who enjoy decades of good health are touched by it eventually, either in our own lives or in those of our loved ones. And when this happens, we grapple with serious and often confusing choices about how best to live with our afflictions. "A Life Worth Living" is a book for people facing these ...
This text provides an in-depth, contemporary approach to clinical social work with clients in mental health settings. This is a revision of a text originally titled Clinical Social Work Practice in Community Mental Health. The "community mental health" approach is now dated, and this revision features "behavioral" mental health, described from a ...
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