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All about osteoarthritis : the definitive resource for arthritis patients and their families /
Osteoarthritis afflicts about 25 million people in the United States-two-thirds of all people over 65-and the numbers will only grow in the coming years as baby boomers age. Yet few who suffer from this disease know much about it-how to relieve the pain, what exercises might help lessen their suffer...
| 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:
- What is osteoarthritis?
- The history of osteoarthritis
- Who gets osteoarthritis?
- Bone: a living tissue
- Cartilage and its accomplices : the body's shock absorbers
- What causes osteoarthritis?
- What happens at a musculoskeletal examination?
- How is osteoarthritis diagnosed?
- The many faces of osteoarthritis: specialized forms
- How can I be sure it's really osteoarthritis?
- The upper body and extremities
- The spine: its nooks and tingles
- The lower body: undoings at our underpinnings
- You can conquer osteoarthritis
- Living well with osteoarthritis
- Exercises to improve osteoarthritis
- How osteoarthritis medications are tested
- Medications what work for osteoarthritis
- Local medical therapies
- But doctor, I'm in pain!
- When do we operate?
- Alternative therapies: do they work?
- I have osteoarthritis: who should I go to for treatment?
- Special cases: osteoarthritis from childhood events and during pregnancy
- Can or should I work?
- Prognosis
- New directions: is there hope for a cure?