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Recommended Books on Rheumatoid Arthritis
The Foot and Ankle in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Comprehensive Guide Comprehensive and accessible, this unique book emphasizes a practical and evidence-based approach to the foot and ankle in rheumatoid arthritis. Information is concise, up to date, and well illustrated. The team of authors consists of rheumatologists and podiatrists based at the highly respected Foot and Ankle Studies in Rheumatology (FASTER) programme, with contributors including both surgeons and orthotists. A companion DVD contains many video clips of examination and injection techniques and gait analyses, additional downloadable images, assessment tools and an interactive injection resource.
- Unique no other text of this nature has been written for podiatrists and rheumatologists.
- Comprehensive all major aspects of the disease in relation to the foot and ankle are covered.
- Companion DVD contains many video clips of examination and injection techniques and gait analyses, additional downloadable images, assessment tools and an interactive injection resource.
- Practical and evidence-based approach.
- Up-to-date text incorporates the latest findings from experts in the field.
Health Journeys: A Guided Meditation to Help You with Rheumatoid Arthritis or Lupus I created this imagery to focus on inflamed joints subsiding and overactive immune cells settling down. There is imagery to combat pain and fatigue, and encourage feelings of peace, calm and gentleness toward the self. (50 min.) Keywords: arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, SLE, osteoarthritis
The Everything Health Guide to Arthritis Are you tired of battling joint pain, stiffness, and soreness? With The Everything® Health Guide to Arthritis, you'll learn to manage your pain and enjoy being more active. Carol Eustice, who has lived with arthritis for more than thirty years, gives you the strength and knowledge you need to:
- Work with your doctor to manage pain
- Explore alternative treatment options
- Stay healthy and active with proper diet
- Protect your joints
- Use exercise to improve range of motion
With this helpful guide, you're just steps away from moving easier, feeling better, and improving your quality of life. Carol Eustice has been the About.com Guide to Arthritis since 1997. She started the first online Rheumatoid Arthritis chatroom on America Online in 1995 and is a former Registered Medical Technologist with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. She has lived with rheumatoid arthritis for more than thirty years and her husband was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis nearly twenty years ago. She lives in Las Vegas. Technical Reviewer: Scott J. Zashin, M.D. is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Division of Rheumatology, in Dallas. He is also an attending physician at Presbyterian Hospitals of Dallas and Plano and a fellow of the American College of Physicians and Rheumatology. He lives in Dallas.
The Hospital for Special Surgery Rheumatoid Arthritis Handbook "This splendid volume is easily understandable, uses real-life situations as examples and is far more up-to-the-minute than other such books. From sexuality to surgery, it offers practical and science-based advice."--Charles M. Plotz, M.D., Editor-in-Chief, Rheuma21st.com
Your complete guide to understanding and living well with rheumatoid arthritis If you or someone close to you suffers from rheumatoid arthritis (RA), this book is a powerful tool you don't want to be without. Two of the authors are physicians at the Hospital for Special Surgery, one of the nation's oldest and best orthopedic research hospitals. Its purpose is to arm you with the information you need to take charge of your disease management and work with your doctors to develop a treatment program that's right for your lifestyle and life goals. In plain English, the authors demystify rheumatoid arthritis-its causes, progression, and various effects on the human body-and decode the often perplexing language that doctors use to describe RA and its diagnosis and treatment. They explain the various treatment and pain management options available to you and ways to discuss them with your doctor. The authors also include the true stories of RA patients whose tales offer encouragement and powerful insights for dealing with the difficult psychological and lifestyle issues RA sufferers face. Their expert advice and guidance covers a range of topics of vital concern to people affected by RA, including: - Old, new, and emerging drug therapies, including gold, corticosteroids, and immunosuppressants
- Analgesics and anti-inflammatories
- Alternative treatment strategies
- Nutrition, diet, and exercise for RA
- Vitamins and supplements, including glucosamine and Evening Primrose oil
- Managing crucial lifestyle issues such as sports, travel, and sex
- Pregnancy and RA
- Alleviating depression and pain
- Surgical options, including joint replacement therapy
Out of Joint: A Private and Public Story of Arthritis (American Lives)
She begins, in the morning, by casing her joints: Can her ankles take the stairs? Will her fingers open a jar? Peel an orange? But it was not always this way for Mary Felstiner, who went to bed one night an active professional and healthy young mother, and woke the next morning literally out of joint. With wrists and elbows no longer working right, she’d discovered one of the first signs of rheumatoid arthritis, the most virulent form of a common disease. Out of Joint is her account of living through arthritis, a distinction she shares with seventy million Americans. While arthritis pain affects one out of three Americans, this book is the first to tell the personal story of the nation’s most common yet neglected disease. Part memoir, part medical and social history, Out of Joint folds the author’s private experience into far-reaching investigations of a socially hidden ailment and of any chronic condition—how to handle love, work, sexuality, fatigue, betrayal, pain, time, mortality, rights, myths, and memory. Moving from the 1940s to the present, this story of one life with arthritis exposes little-known medical research and provocative social issues: alarming controversies over arthritis miracle drugs, intense demands concerning disability, and the surprising and disproportionate number of women affected by chronic illness. From this prize-winning historian comes a call for healing through history, a moving meditation on the way chronic conditions can be treated by enlisting the past. 
Failure Is Not An Option: Thriving With Rheumatoid Arthritis If you were diagnosed with a crippling chronic illness in the prime of your life and everything that was considered normal vanished whom would you turn to? The person you would turn to is me, Linda D'Angelo because I have been suffering from rheumatoid arthritis for over ten years. The book you would purchase is my book "Failure Is Not An Option, Thriving with Rheumatoid Arthritis" because my book is the story of a woman who understands her illness and found the courage and strength of character to step up, face her fears and ascertain her desired outcome, thriving with rheumatoid arthritis. Whether you are newly diagnosed with this illness or a veteran wondering whether you will ever experience a normal life again, my advice to you is "fight" and "fight hard" because your quality of life and the lives of those close to you are in jeopardy. Life presents you with a number of challenges, these challenges can sometimes be unexpected, undeserved and beyond your control. Therefore it is important to remember that life is never about the challenge itself, it is about you, and how you choose to handle the challenge.
Raising A Child With Arthritis: A Parent's Guide Parents practical guidance on raising children with juvenile arthritis, juvenile lupus or other rheumatic diseases.
Rheumatoid Arthritis: Plan to Win Cheryl Koehn used to soak her feet in ice water each morning to relieve the pain and swelling enough to walk. Now she runs a consulting business, skates, and skis. In Rheumatoid Arthritis: Plan to Win, she offers medical, complementary, and self-help strategies to manage the disease and minimize its effects.
Koehn and coauthors John Esdaile, M.D., head of the Division of Rheumatology at University of British Columbia and Scientific Director of the Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, and health/science writer Taysha Palmer, take you step-by-step through understanding and managing RA. You learn how to choose a healthcare team, understand prescription medications, and use an array of complementary therapies. You learn exercises that relieve pain and stiffness and dietary recommendations, including herbs. Living with RA involves emotional upheaval, and the authors offer coping strategies for expressing emotions, keeping a positive attitude, and maintaining a sense of control. A chapter on relationships and sexuality will help you relate to loved ones and includes graphic illustrations of sexual positions that minimize strain on hips, knees, and spine. Another chapter presents tips for making the home and workplace more RA friendly. Recommended for people with RA who want to live their lives fully. --Joan Price Nearly 3 million Americans suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, a painful, incurable connective-tissue disease that attacks the hands and feet as well as the joints and may lead to deformities and permanent disabilities. Rheumatoid Arthritis: Plan to Win offers an inspiring, scientifically based
game plan for minimizing the effects of this chronic illness, and ultimately, achieving optimal health.
Here is the definitive resource for practical strategies and emotional support, whether you need help controlling pain, are concerned about medication side-effects, or want to locate a reliable RA news source or support group on the Internet. Helpful chapters detail the latest therapies,
special dietary and exercise needs of people with RA, how to deal with arthritis at home and in the workplace, prepare for surgery, pregnancy and childbirth, enjoy healthy sexuality, use the mind-body connection to control symptoms, make informed decisions about alternative medicine, and perhaps
most important, how to build a healthcare team and maintain excellent communication and working relationships with that team. By using this book as a starting point and a 24/7 reference guide, people with RA will be better equipped to form an effective plan of action, making well-informed decisions
about their health along the way, and greatly enhancing their ability to live happy, productive lives.
Cheryl Koehn, who was an Olympic-caliber athlete when she developed RA, is a leading advocate and spokesperson for people with arthritis. Together with her co-authors, John Esdaile, MD, and science writer Taysha Palmer, Koehn provides a wealth of information and practical advice, assembled from
thousands of research papers as well as from her personal experiences with this debilitating disease.
The Arthritis Breakthrough: NIH Clinical Trials of the New MIRA Therapy: How They Happened; What They Mean To You! The most important news in half a century. DSThe Midwest Book Review
Keeping A Secret: A Story About Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis Why can't Jennifer play soccer or jump rope? Any child with a chronic disease will relate to this young girl coming to terms with her diagnosis and treatment of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and the manner in which she shares this news with her friends.
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