Showing titles in Arthritis & Musculoskeletal Diseases

After 10 years of dismissive (or downright wrong) diagnoses, the author was finally told she had rheumatoid arthritis the week of her 40th birthday. Stunned and angry, she decided to not let RA interfere with her plans for a great life. Fifteen years into her journey with RA, she’s learned a lot of tricks that make living with RA easier.

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night with sheets soaked, your body in a furnace, and wondered, "What the heck is happening to me?" Are you tired of looking at your reflection in the mirror only to wonder who that exhausted, irritable woman staring back at you really is? You're not alone.

This workbook offers listeners a 30 day structured journal to identify, express, and process psychological issues that may be causing back pain, neck pain, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, tension headaches, TMJ, and other disorders. This workbook also features sections on self-compassion, self-esteem, and gratitude that have proven utility in helping you feel better and heal.

A comprehensive whole-health guide to healing low-back pain from vice chair for Implementation of Spine Health Innovations at Duke University. Back pain is the leading cause of disability in the United States—yet misinformation about its causes and treatment is rampant. Too often, people...

Many people have either been told or read that fibromyalgia (FM) isn't real, or it is just all in their heads. This misunderstanding, unfortunately, causes harm and is a disservice to those suffering. If you are one of the estimated four million people in the United States who are suffering from FM, then you know it is real. You also will receive actionable steps you can take to thrive, not just survive with FM and its related disorders. You will also learn practical and realistic strategies for conquering your FM from Dr. Michael Lenz.

In this book, self-health activist D. Kane condenses research and actual experience as a success story for bone strength and re-entry into an active, fulfilling lifestyle. This book breaks apart bone recovery protocol into easy-to-understand sections, putting the power to recover–literally–in the listener’s hands.

Twenty million adults in the United States live with an autoimmune disease. In this guide, Dr. Julius Birnbaum offers essential advice for navigating the complex world of various autoimmune diseases. This resource will help patients, caregivers, and health care professionals understand the diagnosis, management, and treatment of conditions like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's syndrome, and more.

Your skeleton is a busy system of living tissue. Every day, bone is being broken down and replaced. But with osteoporosis, this process causes your bones to become weak and fragile. The disease often goes undetected until you have a fall or a painful fracture.

Discover how to stop the pain from carpal tunnel syndrome! Whether you want to (1) get rid of the pain, (2) heal the inflammation, or (3) prevent carpal tunnel syndrome in the first place, this audiobook will teach you everything you need to know. Get at the root cause. Find out what sets off the painful inflammation and learn to deal with it the right way. Discover proven, practical solutions to reverse carpal tunnel syndrome.

Imagine life with death as a constant companion. It quietly sits next to you, coloring thoughts, feelings and words, utterly transforming your outlook on life. When Bruce H. Kramer was diagnosed with ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an always fatal neurological disease, the doctor who broke the devastating news thought he was giving Kramer a death sentence. It turned out to be a life sentence.

Author Dr. Lani Simpson, both a doctor of chiropractic and a certified clinical densitometrist, cuts through the confusion and inaccuracies surrounding osteoporosis to explain her whole-body approach to bone health, which includes discussions of digestive health, diet, supplements, and exercise. You may be surprised to learn which foods and medicines hurt bone health and which ones help in building strong bones.

In Disability Is Human, she brings the same energy and insights from her popular presentations and workshops to nearly every industry—where Dr. Cawthon has empowered, encouraged, and supported thousands of people in their journey toward greater access.

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!

When back pain strikes, it can ruin your life. Reaching for painkillers and going the bed rest route can be ineffective and even dangerous for your health. Inspired by my experience with reversing my severe lower back pain and fueled by a vibrant enthusiasm to share these exercise routines with anyone who has back pain, I began to research how to quickly cure back pain at home. In The Essential Lower Back Pain Exercise Guide, you'll learn about my 21-day lower back pain relief program that anyone can use to eliminate lower back pain, reverse bad posture, and get better sleep.

Have you ever suffered from the misery of sciatica or sacroiliac joint pain? If so, you know how debilitating you feel, and you’d love to know a way that you can relieve the hurt. This book will give you easy-to-understand and follow sciatica exercises to provide you with pain relief. If you have low back pain and sciatica, help is on the way to a more vibrant and engaging quality of life. Find relief from sciatica and SI joint pain with these 29 proven exercises from an orthopedic massage therapist specializing in treating chronic pain. You’ll be glad you did!

Nobody should have to live in chronic pain—including you! Don’t let another minute of your life be consumed by physical and mental suffering. Discover how to transform your pain today!

This audiobook contains proven steps and strategies to understand gout and its effect and how to cure it. We will talk about its symptoms, causes, and its effects. We will also talk about its association with other medical conditions. At the end of the book, we will talk about how you can treat gout symptoms and how to manage an attack and also prevention of further uric acid build up in the body. So let us start learning.

This book enables those who suffer from practically any type of arthritis to do more than rid themselves of its symptoms. It explains how to effectively deal with the underlying causes of arthritis to prevent the disease from spreading to other parts of the body and to reverse the damage already done by the disease, information that is needed, but sorely lacking, in this age of information.

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.

More than half of people over the age of 60 have lumbar spinal stenosis—yet most of us know very little about it, and even less about how to manage it. If your "stenosis diagnosis" has caused you all sorts of confusion and panic, take heart. No matter what course of treatment you are considering, Rehab Your Own Spinal Stenosis, Amazon's best-selling book on this topic, will give you the necessary understanding (in easy layman's terms), a wealth of information, and the basic steps that will help you improve the health of your spine.