Arthritis Pain

From the doctors at Mayo Clinic, the top-ranked hospital in the US, this book is a complete guide to understanding and living with arthritis. Find the latest expertise on various forms of arthritis, medications, and other treatment options, and self care to successfully manage joint pain and continue an active life.

Walk with Ease is a fitness program shown to reduce pain and improve your health. Brought to you by the experts you trust at the Arthritis Foundation, Walk with Ease provides techniques to build and maintain a successful walking program.

Dr. Joseph A. Abboud and Dr. Soo Kim Abboud, offer clear, medically based information on the most common diseases to affect the musculoskeletal system. They explain each major joint in detail and draw on their extensive experience with patients to offer sound advice on treatment and prevention options. They also discuss the pros and cons of alternative medicine techniques, and they assess which of the newest technologies really work.

The pain you suffer from fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is not in your imagination. FMS is a real medical problem that can be as debilitating and demoralizing as it is mysterious. Fibromyalgia for Dummies, 2nd Edition, brings you the latest scientific findings on the symptoms and causes of this disease and guides you toward proven, practical steps you can take to reduce or eliminate FMS-related pain.

Seattle spinal surgeon Dr. David Hanscom focuses on an aspect of chronic pain that the medical world has largely overlooked: you must calm your nervous system in order to get better. More than any other book about pain, Back in Control reveals how to quiet a turbocharged central nervous system and make a full recovery, with or without surgery.

If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything, so I quit my college teaching job and went to learn healthcare myself. I want to share as much as I can with you so you can help yourself and your loved ones self-manage your conditions or at least be informed when discussing your problems with the healthcare community. For practical purposes, this book is focused on the most common neuromusculoskeletal chronic pain conditions: particularly conditions having a joint, tendon, ligament, or muscular component to them.

This patient handbook provides an easy-to-follow self-treatment plan to quickly and effectively diagnose, alleviate, treat and manage debilitating back and related pains, even for the long-term sufferer. First in the best-selling Treat Your Own series, written by internationally-acclaimed physiotherapist Robin Mckenzie OBE CNZM, this book distils the essence of the McKenzie method(R) of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy(R), as taught to medical and other health professionals globally, in an easily accessible format, direct to the sufferer.

In this short, researched audiobook, Dr. Maloney explains how habitual pain responses can be caused by both physical and emotional triggers. These triggers form a map of your pain, and finding that map can lead to results when nothing else will work. Dr. Maloney gives an overview of his map of the back, along with patient examples that worked. Then he gives advice on how to map your own back. Ever a realist, Dr. Maloney ends his audiobook with 10 things patients should try before resorting to surgery.

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.

Dr. R. Paul St. Amand is a renowned endocrinologist and has taught at UCLA for over 43 years. He is currently assistant clinical professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he has developed a remarkable treatment for a painful disease that affects millions of people.

In Take Me Home from the Oscars, Schwab tells for the first time her story of living an amazing life in television while suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Schwab recounts with incredible honesty how on the same day she produced and appeared in a major makeover segment for Live with Regis & Kelly in New York and then raced to Chicago to appear on Oprah!, all while balancing medications to ward off the relentless pain that plagued her on-camera and off.

Chronic pain is common. Millions suffer from chronic back pain, fibromyalgia, headaches, and many other forms of chronic, intractable pain, and can't find relief after years of treatment. Chronic pain suffers don't have to hurt alone. With Restore Your Life from Chronic Pain, manage your chronic pain symptoms—both naturally and with the help of the right doctors.

If you're experiencing pain in your hips and knees from sitting for endless hours, standing for long periods, or lifting heavy objects, then the exercises in this book will provide you fast relief! Based on the author's personal experience, research, and professional expertise, these at-home exercises are easy to follow. Activity is essential to help reverse the debilitating effects of back, hip, and knee problems. This is the second book in the Reverse Your Pain series.

In this audiobook, you will find all the fundamental information you need to understand the importance of following the anti-inflammatory diet. You will learn which foods can help you fight inflammation and which ones aggravate it. Most importantly, you will learn how to start the anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle. Included are 50 recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts, and smoothies to help you transition to the anti-inflammatory diet right away.

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.

Bone on Bone is a total lifestyle guide for optimal health and pain-free living. Dr. Meredith Warner—an orthopedic surgeon who performed combat surgery in Iraq and Afghanistan, operates an orthopedic practice, and teaches surgical residents—shows how the same underlying principles that extend life, reduce heart disease, prevent diabetes, and decrease incidences of dementia should be applied to the overall care for orthopedic problems.

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.

If you’re suffering from a physical or mental ailment, you’ve doubtless been presented with a number of possible treatments. Some of these might help, and others, not so much. It may seem surprising, but one of the best places to start for a number of issues is with guided therapeutic imagery. The practice has been around since the ancient Greeks and has received endorsements from health professionals since the 1970s for treating serious illnesses.

Many people live with chronic pain. For some, it's an occasional inconvenience but, for others, it's a huge burden, with a very serious effect on their day to day lives. In Coping with Chronic Pain, Dr Ilan Lieberman explains the current scientific understanding of what chronic pain is, how many different types of chronic pain there are, what causes it and why certain people suffer with chronic pain but others don't.

When you have chronic clicking, popping, or pain in your jaw, it can make everything that much more difficult. It is already hard enough deciding what to make for dinner, but even worse when nothing sounds good, because it is too painful to eat anything other than soup or pasta. And it's not just eating - severe pain in your jaw can also affect your sleep, ability to talk, and overall ability to function.