An Essential Guide for Prostate Cancer Patients and Their Loved Ones
The only guide written exclusively about the side effects of hormone therapy for prostate cancer patients. Offering both the knowledge and encouragement to help men cope with the side effects of ADT and increase the quality of life for prostate cancer patients and their loved ones, this comprehensive workbook is filled with helpful advice from ......
Explores every aspect of living with ALS, from clinical features of the disease to an overview of symptom management to understanding its diagnosis. Major sections deal with overseeing medical care and rehabilitation, living with ALS, the disease's advanced phase, end-of-life issues, and resources.
Tool for caregivers that impact the way they relate to persons with Alzheimer's disease. This book maps each stage showing what to do from a caregiving standpoint. It has charts and sketches on what physically happens to the brain during the progression of Alzheimer's. Its four sections focus on the disease and also on being a caregiver.
Written by the former director of the Spinal Cord Research and Education Foundation of the PVA, this is the first book to cover alternative therapies for Spinal Cord Injury. From acupuncture to laser-based therapies, herbal medicine, homeopathy, craniosacral therapy, magnetic healing and more, the book will empower readers.
Tells readers everything they might want to know about their muscles, how they get injured, illnesses to which they are prone and how to keep them healthy. Chapters cover such diverse topics as anatomy, growth and development, physiology, energy, exercise, injury and disease. There are tables of instructional materials, illustrations and numerous ......
500 Tips for Living Well - Expert Advice to Help You Thrive Each Day
An essential resource for all stroke survivors and their families and caregivers. Updated and expanded, this new edition of the popular resource has been written by a stroke survivor who has spent 24 years helping other survivors live life to the fullest potential. It is filled with practical tips and support to help you cope with the lifestyle ......
Prevention and Recovery for Sports Most Devastating Knee Injury
Features close to 50 ACL-specific exercises designed by a physical therapist for the Norwegian national women's handball, soccer and volleyball teams, and an expert on the science of ACL injury prevention. This title shows you how to better balance your body and strengthen the muscles around your knee to provide greater stability and endurance.
Written for patients, their families, and caregivers, this will help readers understand what is physically happening to the brain so they can empower their own special skills and talents throughout the disease process. The book is divided into three sections that correspond to the progression of Alzheimer's and the unique challenges encountered at ......
How to Deal with Modern Problems Facing Your Tweens and Teens
The author has done years of market research with children and adolescents and created TV programs, websites and other media for teens and tweens; worked with children in classrooms and institutions and created and evaluated government and nonprofit programs for children and adolescents.