Helen Plum Library

For more than 25 years, the renowned Amen Clinics has been the front line of defense against the impact of traumatic brain injury. Few of us have been untouched by injury, whether on the sports field, in a car accident, falling off a bicycle, or in the course of military service. While the consequences of a concussion are not always immediately apparent, they can range from debilitating to devastating. In fact, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is fast...

This workbook provides more than 50 questions and exercises designed to empower those with physical loss and disability to better understand and accept their ongoing processes of loss and recovery. The exercises in Coping with Physical Loss and Disability were distilled from twenty-five years of clinical social work experience with clients suffering from quadriplegia, paraplegia, amputation, cancer, severe burns, HIV/AIDs, and neuro-muscular disorders...

The long-awaited update to the definitive guide to successfully living with Parkinson's disease Known for its upbeat, informative, and inspirational guidance, Living Well with Parkinson's includes a wealth of up-to-date medical information for Parkinson's sufferers, who number over 1 million in the U.S. alone. Combined with the author's poignant personal account of her own struggles with the disease, this new edition features coverage of pallidotomy...

RELIEF IN JUST 21 DAYS! Eighty percent of people will suffer from back pain at some point in their life, and many suffer for far too long. This is a statistic that can be changed. Three Weeks to a Better Back is the key to giving all types of back pain sufferers relief-in just 21 days! Our doctors are missing the cause of our back pain-and that's because they are only treating the back. The Sinett Solution lies in a revolutionary concept: It's Not...

When Susan Douglas, MD, JD, was 21-years-old, she suffered a traumatic spinal cord injury. This book shares her story of surviving what should have been an unsurvivable accident and learning to thrive as a paraplegic. Then, Dr. Douglas offers her action plan: advice, ideas, tips, and solutions, as both a spinal cord injury survivor and a physician, to help spinal cord injury survivors heal and grow from their injuries.

Jim Johnson has researched hundreds of scientific journal articles to find and test the simplest most effective do-it-yourself treatments for knee pain. In this compact and accessible book, he shows readers exactly how to improve and maintain the functioning of their knees by enhancing the four crucial abilities every knee must have: ** muscular strength ** flexibility ** responsiveness (proprioception) ** endurance A chapter is devoted to each...

The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses by William Horatio Bates. A brilliant book written by an eye-surgeon for the masses. William Horatio Bates (1860—1931) was an American physician who practiced ophthalmology and developed what became known as the Bates Method for better eyesight, a method intended to improve vision by undoing a supposed habitual strain to see. The book contains findings after decades of research and experimental...

Feeling like no-one can help you heal your elbow? Sick of elbow pain ruining your life? Ready to FINALLY resolve your tennis elbow and get back to doing all the activities in life you love to do? There has never been a better time than today! The longer you wait, the harder it'll be to heal and the longer it will take. Don't know where to start? Don't worry, Emma Green's got you covered! Follow the Tennis Elbow Queen's step-by-step process to start...

By the year 2030, as many as 171 million people in the U.S.- more than half of all Americans-will be living with at least one chronic medical condition (data from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation). Illness or disability can easily derail a person's sex life-but it doesn't have to be that way. Using kindness, honesty, and humor, Iris Zink, BSN, MSN, ANP, RN-BC, explores the ways illness or disability can affect a sexual relationship and offers suggestions...

Nearly two million Americans undergo elective orthopedic surgery each year. And the numbers keep growing-hip replacements are projected to double over the next fifteen years, and knee replacements will quadruple. When you are ready for your procedure, you'll want a copy of An Insider's Guide to Orthopedic Surgery at your side. It is the only book that will help you prepare yourself (and your home) for a quicker and more thorough recovery. As a physical...