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All about fibromyalgia /
This is a thoroughly revised and updated version of ""Making Sense of Fibromyalgia"", endorsed by the Arthritis Foundation. This new volume continues to provide a comprehensive guide - for both patients and professionals - to this little-known and poorly understood syndrome
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. The whys and wherefores of fibromyalgia
- 1. How our understanding of fibromyalgia evolved
- 2. What is fibromyalgia
- 3. Who gets fibromyalgia and why
- pt. 2. Basic science and fibromyalgia
- 4. Why and how do we hurt
- 5. What's wrong with my muscles
- 6. How do stress, sleep, hormones, and the immune system interact and relate to fibromyalgia
- 7. What is the autonomic nervous system
- pt. 3. How and where the body can be affected by fibromyalgia
- 8. Generalized complaints
- 9. "I'm stiff and achy" : musculoskeletal complaints
- 10. Tingles, shocks, wires, and neurologic complaints
- 11. Insights into insides : chest, cardiovascular, and other concerns
- pt. 4. The clinical spectrum of fibromyalgia
- 12. What are the regional and localized forms of fibromyalgia
- 13. What conditions are associated with fibromyalgia
- 14. Controversial syndromes and their relationship to fibromyalgia
- pt. 5. The evaluation of fibromayalgia patients
- 15. What happens at a fibromyalgia consultation
- 16. Are you sure it's really fibromyalgia
- 17. I'm not crazy
- pt. 6. Improving your quality of life
- 18. Influences of lifestyle and environment on fibromyalgia
- 19. The influence of exercise and rehabilitation on the mind and body
- 20. How to overcome fibromyalgia
- pt. 7. Medicines and other therapies used for fibromyalgia
- 21. Medicines that work for fibromyalgia
- 22. Drugs that are useful inselected fibromyalgia patients
- 23. Behind the hype : unproven, experimental, herbal, and innovative remedies
- 24. Work and disability
- pt. 8. Where are we headed
- 25. What's the prognosis
- 26. The future holds a lot of hope.