Disability-and-Health Books

I believe this book will help you understand the concept of Spinal Cord Injury a little better. It explains how the function of having the injuries in great detail. I would really recommend this book to someone that if basicly look for more information about spinal cord injuries.

THE STONE TREATMENT is an updated and upgraded version of my first novel (Stolen Shadows) in The McFadden Series. Now available in Kindle format, THE STONE TREATMENT has all the same great characters and storyline as the original version written in 2002, plus new scenes have been added!

Want to purchase a traditional copy? The hard copy version of THE STONE TREATMENT will become available for purchase in June '08, and will be sold exclusively on Amazon.

Thank you for purchasing this book and any others from my novel series, and don't forget to check back for book #2 in this series, THE SPIRIT GUIDE (available in July '08).

Mary King

Natural remedy greatly reduces pain associated with osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia. Books give insight into a natural remedy for arthritis pain--and it's free! Jacksonville, Florida, September 10, 1997: Baby boomers may think they can have it all. But as they age, they might get more than they bargained for, specifically, two debilitating forms of arthritis called osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia. While many have turned to nutritional supplements for the "cure," these are not approved by the FDA and are not substantiated by clinical trials. "There is a natural remedy that many are unaware of," reported Harris H. McIlwain, MD, a Florida-based board certified rheumatologist and gerontologist and coauthor of Stop Osteoarthritis Now! Halting the Baby Boomer's Disease (Simon & Schuster Publishing) and The Fibromyalgia Handbook (Henry Holt and Company). The treatment? A combination of conditioning and strength-training moves that almost anyone can do. "Exercise is the easiest and most guaranteed way to ease pain and stiffness associated with osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia--the two most common forms of arthritis," McIlwain said. With increased years, the chances of getting osteoarthritis increases, as the body becomes less efficient at repairing itself. After age 50, 80 percent of America's population is affected to some degree with osteoarthritis, showing signs of pain and stiffness. Likewise, more than 10 million Americans have fibromyalgia, mostly women ages 40 to 55, which causes deep muscle pain, depression and fatigue. "Imagine what 50 years of use and 200 pounds of weight can do to your muscles and joints," McIlwain said. "But this exercise program will help to maintain a normal weight and keep aging muscles strong and joints lubricated. For fibromyalgia patients, exercise will reduce deep muscle pain, ease depression and promote healing sleep." McIlwain believes in this treatment so strongly that he developed a step-by-step treatment and prevention plan for his patients. The activity-based program he promotes helps to stop these forms of arthritis and gives patients a higher quality of life. "I even see elderly patients who, by staying on this exercise and strength-training program, are able to feel great improvement with reduced pain in just a few weeks," McIlwain contended. "Many have delayed or prevented worsening of arthritis with this plan." Helping the body heal itself with exercise is fully described in McIlwain's latest books, Stop Osteoarthritis Now! Halting the Baby Boomer's Disease and The Fibromyalgia Handbook, as well as in his Winning Series--Winning with Back Pain, Winning with Arthritis, and Winning with Osteoporosis (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.). Winning with Back Pain and Winning with Arthritis. All are now available at major booksellers.

This was a very well done book, a must for anyone with a child that needs help explaining what is happening with grandma/grandpa and Alzheimer's. Well presented and beautifully illustrated. Well done, Ms. Schnurbush.

This book is terrific. It is great for any child that is in the beginning years of school. It educates the reader about cystic fibrosis and assists children in dealing with classmates or friends who may have cystic fibrosis. My seven year old son thought it was informative and fun to read. There should be more books of this kind.

Poverty was also a reality in Biblical times, but the term "multiproblem families" was first used and introduced by Isaac Hoffman, the research director of the Wilder Foundation in St. Paul, Minnesota, in the 1950s. The authors of this book are from Israel, Shlomo A Sharlin, director at the Center for Research and Study of the Family, School of Social Work, Haifa University and Michal Shamai, director of the Social Work department, Tel-Chai College. The book is the result of intensive work through the 1990s with 35 families in extreme distress (FED) from the Northern part of Israel. The project has resulted in the development of a Families in Extreme Distress Scale used to detect the families by the examination of nine different areas: poverty, housing, health, couple functioning, parental functioning, children, substance abuse, antisocial behavior and support systems. The authors also learned the importance of home visiting (instead of inviting the clients to the Social Service Department), the use of a therapeutic team (instead of working alone), working in a dialogue with the family (instead of imposing solutions on the family) and to use many work techniques with the families (instead of using only one model). The book has a good historic review on research with multi-problem families, discussion of moving from theory to practice with different intervention models and a detailed description of the families that they worked with. The experience from this work can be replicated, but most importantly the book gives guidelines for keeping the hope that it is worthwhile to keep working with families in distress. The book will be very helpful for the worker in the field, for the researcher and the teacher involved with social work, family and child care. Professor Joav Merrick, MD, DMSc Medical Director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: jmerrick@aquanet.co.il

Jared Kant's powerful, candid account of growing up with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is riveting, sometimes heartbreaking, and at times laugh-out-loud funny. Adolescents struggling with OCD will find compassion and encouragement here, as well as practical, accurate information about how to get better with the right kind of treatment. An excellent book for teachers, parents, professionals - for anyone who wants to understand this potentially devastating but treatable neurobiological disorder.

I THINK EVERY PARENT& EVERY LEARNING CHALLENGED KID&EVEN KID AT HEART SHOULD READ THIS & ITS RELATED KIDS BOOK!!THOSE LEARNING CHALLENGED ADULTS WHO LIKE 12STEP (IE ACOA) BOOKS WILL ESPECIALLY FIND IT COMFORTING & SOOTHING TO READ,ADDIE SANDERS HAS DONE A MARVELOUS JOB IN UNDERSTANDING THE LITTLE KID IN ALL OF US-MYSELF INCLUDED!I'D BE DELIGHTED TO SPEAK WITH ANYONE WHO HAS QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS AS I HAVE BEEN DR L'S DYSLEXIC/ADHD PATIENT SINCE 9/84-PRESENT& HAVE DONE GREAT!!! IN FACT,I NOW LIKE SCHOOL SO MUCH THAT I'VE NEARLY COMPLETED MY 2ND MASTERS DEGREE WITH A 3.9 GPA WHILE WORKING FULLTIME !!FONDLY, MARSHA LAMPERT MBA AGE 34 WANTAGH NY

I especially liked the book's history of the development of medicine and the origination of our health care system in the US.

It was very interest and little hard to understand about different of kind deaf culture ASL and Oral and other disablity.