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Multiple Sclerosis Management Books from myfoodcount.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. MS can cause a variety of symptoms, including changes in sensation, visual problems, muscle weakness, depression, and difficulties with coordination and speech. Although many patients lead full and rewarding lives, MS can cause impaired mobility and disability in the more severe cases.
Multiple sclerosis affects neurons, the cells of the brain and spinal cord that carry information, create thought and perception and allow the brain to control the body. Surrounding and protecting these neurons is a fatty layer known as the myelin sheath, which helps neurons carry electrical signals. MS causes gradual destruction of myelin (demyelination) and transection of neuron axons in patches throughout the brain and spinal cord, causing various symptoms depending upon which signals are interrupted. The name multiple sclerosis refers to the multiple scars (or scleroses) on the myelin sheaths. It is thought that MS results from attacks by an individual's immune system on the nervous system and is therefore categorized as an autoimmune disease.
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Lean on Me : Ten Powerful Steps to Moving Beyond Your Diagnosis and Taking Back Your Life
by Nancy Davis
The prognosis you give yourself is the only one that's important. You can't allow yourself to become the victim of a negative prognosis.
At the young age of thirty-three, Nancy Davis was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The finality of the neurologist's prognosis was devastating: "There is nothing you can do. Go home and go to bed...forever." Nancy left her doctor's office in shock and despair. How could it be that within a year she would be confined to her bed, at best able to push the buttons on her television's remote control? She had plans. She had a family. She had a life that she desperately wanted to live.
Nancy made a choice. Rather than accepting this hopeless prognosis, she began to educate herself, to create an effective health regimen, and to expand her range of therapeutic options. She literally reinvented her prognosis and in doing so she created a healthy new life.
Lean on Me couples Nancy's deeply personal story with a step-by-step guide to empower anyone to take charge of his or her own health care in the face of any life-threatening disease:
- Step One Embrace Change
- Step Two Fear Less
- Step Three Never Take No for an Answer
- Step Four Find Your Dr. Right
- Step Five Build Your Health Team
- Step Six You Are What You Ingest
- Step Seven Let's Get Physical
- Step Eight Explore Alternative Therapies
- Step Nine Tame the Health Care Monster
- Step Ten Give Back
Life-altering diseases often come with a list of "can'ts," "won'ts," and "no's." Nancy teaches readers how to move beyond these negative concepts and focus on what they personally can and will do to improve their health. Each of these steps offers readers the strategies and strength to carry on when they're feeling overwhelmed, and the concrete tools for actively seeking and receiving the best treatment.
Lean on Me is the health advocate that each of us needs to adopt in the face of a medical crisis. It is a book that shows how to navigate the health care waters, to find hope, to take positive action, and to celebrate progress -- all kinds, every day. It provides the knowledge and power to make good choices. It supplies the authoritative information that can enable you to save your life or the life of a loved one.
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Facing the Cognitive Challenges of Multiple Sclerosis
by Jeffrey N. Gingold
The “thinking” disability of multiple sclerosis affects many people with the disease, who do not realize this invisible symptom — which disconnects mental pathways in the brain — is the cause of their confusion. When Jeffrey Gingold “misplaced his wife on the living room couch” and became lost while driving just blocks from his home, little did he know it was an effect of MS. Here, he documents his struggle, bringing a too-often hidden disability into the open. Written for the silent majority of MS patients who are privately dealing with the disease’s cognitive symptoms and potential disabilities, the book is also an essential resource for families and caregivers, as well as for physicians and other medical professionals who lack awareness of the issue. "Call-Outs" and "Perspectives" in each chapter help the reader recognize their own thinking difficulties, offering specific tools for coping and maintaining their vitality.
Jeffrey N. Gingold is an outspoken advocate regarding cognitive disability and has been a federal and state lobbyist. He helped procure funding for an MS early diagnosis program for indigent women in Wisconsin. He was the recipient of the NMSS Wisconsin Chapter’s 2003 Outstanding Volunteer Award. He is a published freelance writer who lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife Terri and their two daughters - and one cat. |
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The First Year-Multiple Sclerosis: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
by Margaret Blackstone
Multiple sclerosis is as much a mystery as it is a disease, but this chronic and often-disabling condition of the central nervous system affects an estimated 350,000 nationwide. From the first moment of her diagnosis, author Margaret Blackstone took charge and educated herself on every aspect of her condition. Now, as a "patient-expert," she guides those newly diagnosed step-by-step through their first year with MS. She provides illustrative charts and tables, crucial information about the nature of the disease, treatment options, diet, exercise, social concerns, emotional issues, networking with others, and much more. The First Year—Multiple Sclerosis will be an invaluable guide for everyone learning to live with a MS diagnosis.
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Alternative Medicine and Multiple Sclerosis
by Allen C. Bowling, Allen C. Bowling
Univ. of Colorado, Denver. Offers information on the relevance, safety, and effectiveness of various alternative therapies not typically considered in discussions of MS management. For consumers. Softcover. DNLM: Multiple Sclerosis--therapy.
Allen C. Bowling, M.D., Ph.D., is Associate Medical Director at The Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center, Englewood, Colorado. During the past few years he has focused specifically on CAM therapies as they apply to MS, and has lectured on this topic extensively to both patient and professional groups.
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Multiple Sclerosis Q & A : Researching Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
by Beth Ann Hill
Drawing from the latest scientific information and from the author's personal experience, text discusses the symptoms, tests, medical terminology, traditional and complementary treatment options, and lifestyle changes associated with multiple sclerosis. Also provides listings of support groups, websites, books, and more.
This comprehensive yet accessible work provides authoritative and reassuring answers to the many questions that overwhelm those undergoing testing and treatment for multiple sclerosis. It discusses traditional and complementary therapies for MS; explains medical terminology and diagnostics; and compassionately addresses the lifestyle changes many patients face while learning to manage this chronic and potentially debilitating disorder.
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The Multiple Sclerosis Diet Book
by Roy Laver Swank, Barbara Brewer Dugan
Hundreds of new recipes for dishes that taste terrific but stick to the diet rules so important for controlling M.S.--now completely revised to conform to the latest medical research.
Hundreds of new recipes for dishes that taste terrific but stick to the diet rules so important for controlling M.S.--now completely revised to conform to the latest medical research.
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Multiple Sclerosis: A Self-Care Guide To Wellness
by Nancy J. Holland (Editor), June Halper (Editor)
Fresh ideas on how to cope with the ever-changing challenges of multiple sclerosis, with a focus on wellness. This book offers practical tips on self-care for maximum independance, well-being, and productivity.
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Multiple Sclerosis: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier
by Shelley Peterman Schwarz
This invaluable book is packed with practical information for those dealing with the special challenges of multiple sclerosis. From general advice to unique solutions for saving time and energy to specific ideas, the book contains more than 300 tips, techniques, and shortcuts to help MS patients organize and simplify their lives. Among the topics addressed are home safety and accessibility; meal planning and preparation; grooming and dressing tips; computers and technology; and improving memory and concentration. A new travel section covers weekend getaways and extended trips, as well as tips for making car trips, air travel, and hotel/motel stays safer and more pleasant. The second edition also includes new sections on managing medical issues, products that make everyday tasks easier, and a resource guide. Readers learn to conserve valuable time and energy and develop techniques for making life easier, enabling them to enjoy life to the fullest.
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Multiple Sclerosis: The Questions You Have - the Answers You Need
by Rosalind C. Kalb (Editor)
Multiple Sclerosis is the definitive guide for everyone concerned with multiple sclerosis from those who have the disease, to those who share their lives with someone who has it, to those health care professionals involved with its management. Multiple Sclerosis covers a wide range of topics in a format that is familiar, accessible, and easily understood. Its question and answer format reflects the collaborative relationship between people with MS and their health care professionals. Multiple Sclerosis contains a comprehensive glossary of all terms commonly used in MS management, as well as a list of relevant resources for individuals with MS and their families. The chapter on treatments includes descriptions of each of the medications commonly used in the treatment of MS and the management of its symptoms. Multiple Sclerosis will demystify both the disease and its treatment. Multiple Sclerosis is an essential addition to all medical, clinical, and community libraries.
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Reversing Multiple Sclerosis: 9 Effective Steps to Recover Your Health
by Celeste Pepe, Lisa Hammond
Multiple sclerosis is a debilitating disease that has long been regarded as being almost beyond the possibility of successful treatment. For many patients a diagnosis of MS has meant the end of a normally functioning life. Not any longer.
Celeste Pepe was a vigorous 42, a busy chiropractor and naturopath, when she an MS diagnosis.
What does an expert in alternative medicine do when she gets seriously ill? Dr. Pepe realized it was time to put her deep belief in alternative medicine to the test. She resolved to find and employ effective natural ways to reverse this condition and restore her health. She did, and her multiple sclerosis is now a thing of the past.
Dr. Pepe’s remarkable healing odyssey took her through many disciplines, theories, and practices in the world of natural medicine and into the depths of her own body and mind. In the end, she distilled her successful treatment into a program that nay MS patient can follow to restore health. She explains this with clarity, medical precision, and a strong measure of encouragement.
Using her own healing experience, Dr. Pepe explains the nine step that can help the MS patient turn the corner on this disease: detailed nutrient testing and fortification, bee venom treatment, allergy testing, dietary changes, personally tailored nutritional plans, the use of specialized supplements, chelation therapy, regular exercise, and the replacement of mercury amalgam dental fillings. “I truly believe that if you diligently apply these healing protocols, which I have learned, you will no longer be known as an MS victim’,” says Dr. Pepe.
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Multiple Sclerosis: Everything You Need To Know
by Paul O'Connor
Multiple sclerosis strikes one in a thousand North Americans, usually in early adulthood, just as they are building careers and starting families. Because the disease involves the central nervous system, the effects are wide-ranging and difficult to predict.
Multiple Sclerosis is a fact-filled comprehensive guide to living with MS, supported by diagrams, case histories, a drug table and an extensive list of helpful books and organizations.
This updated edition features new drugs and therapies. Topics include: - What MS is, and who suffers from it - How MS is diagnosed as possible, probable or definite - Why the disease affects different people in different ways - Differences between relapsing-remitting MS and progressive MS - Adapting homes, careers and lifestyles to cope with the disease - Treatments currently available.
Combining current and authoritative medical advice and practical hands-on tips, Multiple Sclerosis is an invaluable guide for anyone affected by this complex disease.
Dr. Paul O'Connor has been treating people with MS for 15 years. He is Director of the MS Clinic and MS Research, and Chief of Neurology at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada. He is also Associate Professor at the University of Toronto.
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Multiple Sclerosis: A Self-Help Guide to Its Management
by Judy Graham
This comprehensive guide to alternative and self-help care is directed to those who have MS, and to their families, friends, and helpers. Judy Graham's personal experiences with MS prompted her to explore various natural methods of treatment, leading to dramatic and lasting improvement in her own health. In her book, she has combined this first-hand knowledge with extensive, ongoing research.
Offers advice on exercise, posture, yoga, hyperbaric oxygen treatment, incontinence, relationships, sexuality, pregnancy, childbirth, mental attitude, and dealing with fatigue.
Includes resource information and full details on evening primrose oil, a dietary supplement shown to be effective for many people with MS.
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The MS Workbook: Living Fully With Multiple Sclerosis
by George H., M.D. Kraft, Dawn M., Ph.D. Ehde, Kurt L., Ph.D. Johnson, Robert T. Fraser (Editor)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) can be a terrifying diagnosis for anyone to face. But, as with many other potentially devastating problems, MS can be best controlled and best lived with when sufferers balance prudent lifestyle changes with effective treatment—and these sorts of choices require sound and current information. This workbook, written by a team of doctors and psychologists from the renowned Western MS Center at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is the first available for people with MS. It covers a wide variety of problems, everything from symptom management to sexual function to career opportunities to spirituality.
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Exercises for Multiple Sclerosis: A Safe and Effective Program to Fight Fatigue, Build Strength, and Improve Balance
by Brad Hamler
In the U.S. alone, approximately 400,000 people have multiple sclerosis (MS). MS is an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system. There are a variety of symptoms of MS and it affects people in different ways, but there is no cure.
Fitness can help strengthen debilitated bodies, and make living with the disease a little easier. Exercises for Multiple Sclerosis outlines a detailed exercise plan that can help MS sufferers overcome their symptoms, especially fatigue and mobility problems. The latest book in the popular Exercises for series, Exercises for Multiple Sclerosis provides a tested program for people living with MS, making it an essential reference for anyone who suffers from MS.
The exercises are clearly photographed in easy-to-follow sequences and contain complete descriptions. If you or someone you know suffers from MS, you need this book. Exercises for Multiple Sclerosis will help MS sufferers to achieve a healthier, happier, more productive life. 100 photos.
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