Daniel J. Wallace, Janice Brock Wallace

All About Fibromyalgia (eBook, PDF)

A Guide for Patients and Their Families

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This year, six million Americans--most of them women--will go to their doctors, complaining of an illness they have no name for. The majority will be turned away or treated for depression; the few who persist will go to an average of four doctors before they receive the correct diagnosis: fibromyalgia. In their earlier Making Sense of Fibromyalgia, noted medical writer Janice Wallace and Dr. Daniel Wallace, a leading expert on this disorder, provided a comprehensive guide--for both patients and professionals--to this little known and poorly understood syndrome. Now, in All About Fibromyalgia, the Wallaces provide a thoroughly revised and updated version of that highly successful volume, incorporating a wealth of new information. This edition provides the current understanding of the disease as well as the latest drug treatments--all laid out in clear and accessible language. As in the previous volume, the authors provide a detailed, yet clear explanation of the disease. Fibromyalgia, they explain, is a form of chronic neuromuscular pain, a pain-amplification syndrome brought on by abnormal interactions between hormones, the immune system, neurotransmitters, and the autonomic nervous system. Sometimes the syndrome occurs spontaneously; in most cases, the authors write, it is associated with trauma, stress, such conditions as lupus and hypothyroidism, and over forty microbes, from hepatitis to Epstein-Barr to Lyme disease. Drawing on actual cases to illustrate their points, the authors help break through the isolation that patients often feel when doctors misdiagnose or simply ignore their symptoms. All About Fibromyalgia addresses a desperate need for information on this disease and offers reassurance to patients and their families.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198033660
• Artikelnr.: 38151886

Autorenporträt

Daniel Wallace, M.D., is an attending physician who has served as Clinical Chief of Rheumatology at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, and has treated hundreds of victims of fibromyalgia. He is the author of The Lupus Book and co-author of All About Osteoarthritis, both by Oxford. Janice Wallace is a freelance medical writer. They live in Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: The Whys and Wherefores of Fibromyalgia
* 1: How Our Understanding of Fibromyalgia Evolved
* 2: What is Fibromyalgia?
* 3: Who Get Fibromyalgia and Why?
* Part II: 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?
* Part III: 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: Insight into Insides: Chest, Cardiovascular, and Other Concerns
* Part IV: 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
* Part V: The Evalution of Fibromyalgia Patients
* 15: What Happens at a Fibromyalgia Consultation?
* 16: Are You Sure It's Really Fibromyalgia?
* 17: I'm Not Crazy!
* Part VI: 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
* Part VII: Medicines and Other Therapies Used for Fibromyalgia
* 21: Medicines That Work for Fibromyalgia
* 22: Drugs That Are Useful in Selected Fibromyalgia Patients
* 23: Behind the Hype: Unproven, Experimental, Herbal and Innovative
Remedies
* 24: Work and Disability
* Part VIII: Where Are We Headed?
* 25: What's the Prognosis
* 26: The Future Holds a Lot of Hope
* Appendix 1: Fibromyalgia Resource Materials
* Glossary