All About Fibromyalgia

A Guide for Patients and their Families

Daniel J. Wallace, Janice Brock Wallace (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2002
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-514753-7 (ISBN)

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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.

In All About Fibromyalgia, the authors provide a thoroughly revised and updated version of the highly successful Making Sense of Fibromyalgia, which was endorsed by the Arthritis Foundation, Southern California Chapter. This new volume continues to provide a comprehensive guide - for both patients and professionals - to this little known and poorly understood syndrome. It has now also been completely updated with the current understanding of the disease, and includes information on the latest drug treatments.

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.

PART I: THE WHYS AND WHEREFORES OF FIBROMYALGIA ; PART II: BASIC SCIENCE AND FIBROMYALGIA ; PART III: HOW AND WHERE THE BODY CAN BE AFFECTED BY FIBROMYALGIA ; PART IV: THE CLINICAL SPECTRUM OF FIBROMYALGIA ; PART V: THE EVALUTION OF FIBROMYALGIA PATIENTS ; PART VI: IMPROVING YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE ; PART VII: MEDICINES AND OTHER THERAPIES USED FOR FIBROMYALGIA ; PART VIII: WHERE ARE WE HEADED? ; APPENDIX 1: FIBROMYALGIA RESOURCE MATERIALS ; GLOSSARY

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.5.2002
Zusatzinfo	numerous line drawings
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 232 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Unfallchirurgie / Orthopädie
	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Rheumatologie
ISBN-10	0-19-514753-7 / 0195147537
ISBN-13	978-0-19-514753-7 / 9780195147537
Zustand	Neuware