Showing titles in Arthritis & Musculoskeletal Diseases

When you live with back pain, you live with equally unbearable side effects. Anxiety. Depression. Fatigue. Hopelessness. You’re fighting a daily battle impossible to articulate and difficult to see. The list of remedies has been short, unappealing, and ineffective. So you’ve accepted pain. You’ve settled for it because you’ve had to. But you don’t have to anymore.

Worldwide, there are more than 10 million people living with Parkinson's disease (PD). In the US alone, approximately one million Americans live with PD and approximately 60,000 more are diagnosed each year. Internationally renowned as both a neurologist and a leading researcher, Dr. Okun has been referred to as the voice of these patients and a world authority on Parkinson's disease. His positive and optimistic approach has helped countless people manage their symptoms and achieve happiness despite them.

Has fibromyalgia put your career on hold? Is it keeping you from your passions (and your life)? Do you spend hours online searching for solutions that only leave you more confused and exhausted? Whether you’re still struggling to get a diagnosis or actively trying to convince those around you that your “invisible illness” is real, Karen Brinklow knows where you’re coming from. Career or Fibromyalgia, Do I Have to Choose? sorts out all the symptoms that are keeping you in a cycle of confusion and unable to work.

Dr. Andrew Strauss' passion for finding the underlying cause of scoliosis and effectively treating it brought him on a journey to explore new frontiers in the realm of evidence-based, scientifically sound principles that get to the root of the problem. In this groundbreaking book Your Child Has Scoliosis, Dr. Andrew Strauss gives parents the fundamentals, the reasoning, and the science to know what steps to take next with their child.

Millions of women struggle needlessly with pelvic floor dysfunction, causing bladder urgency, urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and pelvic pain that interferes with sexual function and other daily activities. The topic of women’s pelvic health still suffers from taboo and stigma, making good information and real solutions hard to come by.

Rational and fair, Arthritis and Marijuana serves as a unique practical guide for the millions who seek effective relief from debilitating arthritis. Written from personal experience as well as clinical research, this resource is about healing aching bodies and reducing disability. It's about explaining the advantages and advocating for marijuana as an effective, easily grown sustainable medicine - sometimes better suited than pharmacueticals.

Arthritis can be extremely painful. It essentially means an inflammation of the joints, but it is a broad term that describes more than 200 rheumatic diseases and conditions. These can affect tissues, joints, and connective tissue. The most common form is that of osteoarthritis. The arthritis cure is all about treatment. You are not going to be able to cure the disease entirely, but there is a lot that you can do in order to make improvements.

Back and shoulder pain is often the result we endure because of our modern world, sitting at computers, hunched over smartphones, and slouching while we read or watch TV. This book explores ways that people can damage their muscles and options to overcome poor habits and strengthen their muscles. This includes suggestions for avoiding repetitive, prolonged tasks, along with better sitting and sleeping positions. The information and illustrated exercises provide guidance to take care of yourself at home to create a healthier lifestyle.

Caring for a loved one with dementia can be overwhelming and emotionally challenging, but it can also be one of the most rewarding roles you’ll ever take on. "Caring for Dementia Patients" is a comprehensive guide designed to empower caregivers with practical tools and compassionate insights to provide high-quality care throughout every stage of dementia.

Feldenkrais-Übungen entlasten die Wirbelsäule und verbessern die Beweglichkeit des Rückens. So können Schmerzen und Haltungsprobleme gelindert werden. Dieses Hörbuch enthält Übungen für den unteren Rücken, u.a. die bekannte Feldenkrais-Übung "Die Beckenuhr". 2 Übungsreihen à 30 Minuten laden dazu ein, hindernde Bewegungsmuster wahrzunehmen, Alternativen kennen zu lernen.

With all the misinformation, myths, and misconceptions from "experts" and countless books and guides available online about scoliosis, it can be easy to get lost and confused in the thousands of suggested treatments, options, and plans. In this fifth edition, not only will you discover the unvarnished truth about scoliosis, but you will also digest verified facts with unquestionable accuracy, which will help you to completely demystify the preconceived notions that proper spinal alignment is inaccessible without surgery.

Surviving Myotonic Dystrophy is about Ann S. Woodbury’s struggle to care for her family who have a rare disease - myotonic dystrophy (DM). Ann’s four children and her husband have DM. In 1998, at the time of the diagnosis, even the doctors didn’t know all of the effects of DM or that it was a brain disorder. Listening to this book will take you on a journey of understanding this disease and its effects on Ann’s family members.

Ultimately, Hadler's insights illustrate how the state of the science can and should inform the art and practice of medicine as well as public policy. Stabbed in the Back will arm any reader with the insights necessary to make informed decisions when confronting the next episode of low back pain.

I wrote this audiobook out of my own experience with knee pain. I have included the things that worked for me and have proved most successful in helping others. Now you can use these strategies to develop stronger and healthier pain-free knees for years to come!

A sudden rise in opioid addicts coinciding with a sudden drop in legally available opioids, created a desperation for prescription drugs never seen before in this country. Physicians shut down their previous practice of repeated refills, once the death toll was too high to ignore. As hospitals and rehab facilities instituted drug testing and CORI checks to ensure employees were clean, one health-care option stood alone as a place to easily obtain painkillers. That place was home health care.

An acute injury. Chronic pain. A shocking discovery. Maria Socolof, a former collegiate athlete, at age forty, ruptured a disc in her neck when she rolled over in bed. Time and conventional medicine failed to heal her. Years of debilitating pain followed. She sincerely questioned whether life in such pain was worth living. Then, through mindbody approaches and bewildering revelations, true healing finally began. Her raw chronicle attests to the impact emotional trauma can have on the body and how we can set ourselves free from the limitations of our subconscious.

This book offers practical advice and motivational tips for managing gout through exercise and lifestyle changes. It's designed to help you stay active and healthy, even with joint pain.

Voulez-vous vous sentir encouragé par rapport à votre santé ? Voulez-vous avoir accès à des informations fondées sur des recherches fiables pour prendre des décisions éclairées ? Dans cette cinquième édition, non seulement vous découvrirez la vérité vraie au sujet de la scoliose, mais vous assimilerez aussi des faits vérifiés avec une précision indiscutable qui vous aideront à démystifier complètement les idées préconçues selon lesquelles un bon alignement de la colonne vertébrale est inaccessible sans chirurgie. Traiter naturellement la scoliose !

Here's how you can deal with arthritis naturally! Looking for natural healing ways of easing your joint stiffness? Have you tried everything to face the arthritis symptoms with no long-term results? Do you want to relieve your arthritis pain and get your old life back? Now you can! Introducing Rebecca Park Totilo's Healing Arthritis Naturally with Essential Oil - a practical guide offering useful information about arthritis and how essential oils can help you cope with it and improve your everyday life!

Chiropractor, lecturer, expert federal chiropractic examiner, and supervising clinician Michael Vianin (MSc, DC) is committed to ensuring clinicians and other healthcare professionals involved in the management of musculoskeletal disorders and pain syndromes have access to practical tools allowing them to apply a dispositionalist model of musculoskeletal care. In-depth and evidence-based, Michael advocates for a patient-centered and collaborative approach to pain management and treatment.