Eighty percent of Americans experience back pain in varying degrees at some point in their lives. In fact, back pain is second only to the common cold as a reason why people visit a doctor. In The Back Book, Johns Hopkins surgeons Ziya L. Gokaslan and Lee Hunter Riley explain the causes and complexities of back pain and the various paths to ......
Coronary heart disease kills more people in the United States than any other heart disorder, and it is the leading cause of death among American women. Jerome E. Granato, a distinguished cardiologist with more than twenty-five years of experience, has created an authoritative and accessible guide to this common condition, providing patients and ......
How Cancer Therapies Can Affect Your Mind: What Patients, Families, and
The brain fog that afflicts many people who have undergone standard or high-dose chemotherapy is known as 'chemobrain'. This guide for cancer patients, survivors, families, friends, and caregivers, provides information on the poorly understood side effect of chemotherapy treatment. It explains how chemotherapy works at the basic biological level.
A Workbook for Detecting, Diagnosing, and Eliminating Pesky Pests, Stinky Stenches, Musty Mold, and Other Aggravating Home Problems
Designed for people concerned about the air quality in their home, this step-by-step guide covers the nooks and crannies of indoor air pollutionfrom what to look for to how to fix it. Jeffrey May and his wife, Connie May, draw from their professional expertise and previous booksMy House Is Killing Me!, My Office Is Killing Me!, and The Mold ......
Now available in Spanish, The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer's Care is your guide to the ground-breaking and uplifting method for the care of people with Alzheimer's disease. Discover the power of the essential elements of friendship: respect, empathy, support, trust, humour. These are the building blocks of a care model that's both effective ......
A guide to communicating with your child's doctor, paediatrician that shows parents how to talk more effectively to their doctors about their children's health. It demonstrates how doctors evaluate symptoms, interpret answers to their questions, and decide on a course of treatment.
Fully updated and revised, the second edition of Spinal Cord Injury is the definitive guide for people with SCI and their families. Combining first-person accounts with up-to-date medical information, the book addresses all aspects of spinal cord injury -- recovery and coping, sex and family matters, transportation and housing, employment and ......
There are approximately 220,000 people with spinal cord injury in the United States and about 10,000 new injuries each year. This straightforward book is designed to help them--and their family members and friends--during the rehabilitation process and the journey that follows. Written by three professionals in rehabilitation medicine and ......
What your Child Care Provider and Your Pediatrician Want you to Know
Love and Limits In and Out of Child Care is a roadmap for parenting happy, healthy children. Coauthored by day care provider Margaret (Peggy) Thomas, her husband, Richard, and Lisa Dobberteen, a pediatrician who entrusted her own children to Peggy's care, this is an enjoyable and educational guide to everything from TV watching to toilet ......
