Plantar fasciitis (PLAN-tur fas-e-I-tis) involves pain and inflammation of a thick band of tissue, called the plantar fascia, that runs across the bottom of your foot and connects your heel bone to your toes. Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common causes of heel pain. Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading device.

This book covers several topics including: Chapter 1: What Is Physiotherapy? Chapter 2: How To Check Physiotherapy Credentials Chapter 3: Physiotherapy Statistics Chapter 4: How To Make The Most Of A Physiotherapy Assessment Chapter 5: What Are Physiotherapy Costs And Will Insurance Pay? Chapter 6: Physiotherapy's Role In Treating Spinal Muscular Atrophy Chapter 7: Physiotherapy To Treat Sports Injuries Chapter 8: Rehab Physiotherapy Chapter 9: Phy...

This book covers several topics including: Chapter 1: What Is Pilates Chapter 2: How Can Pilates Help an Injured Athlete Chapter 3: How Does Pilates Help Back Pain Chapter 4: Osteoarthritis Help From Pilates Chapter 5: How Pilates Is Connected To The Mind Chapter 6: How Pilates Helps Breast Cancer Survivors Chapter 7: How Are You Evaluated After Breast Cancer For Pilates Chapter 8: Doin...

Phantom pain is pain that feels like it's coming from a body part that's no longer there. Doctors once believed this post-amputation phenomenon was a psychological problem, but experts now recognize that these real sensations originate in the spinal cord and brain. Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading device.

This ebook provides an approach to the resolution of runners plantar fasciitis based on improved body awareness and the dynamic nature of fascia. FitOldDog’s bout of runner’s plantar fasciitis-induced heel and foot pain resulted from his tendency to lean forward whilst standing, compounded by a tense hamstring triggering calf muscle spasms and tightening of the related fascia. How would a boot or sock help with that? They didn’t? Curing my sore heel enabled me to qualify for the Boston Mar...

Dr. Bogash has been publishing posts related to back pain for many years. This book is a compilation of blog posts done over the years in a organized format with some additional commentary to help make the information clearer.Many of the topics discussed in this book may be new to you and may never have been brought up by your personal physician. Unfortunately, there is a veritable chasm between the medical research and what primary care doctors and orthopedic doctors seem to share...

I have been publishing on Natural Pain Relief for many years. This book is a compilation of blog posts done over the years in a organized format with some additional commentary to help make the information clearer.Many of the topics discussed in this book may be new to you and may never have been brought up by your personal physician. Unfortunately, there is a veritable chasm between the medical research and what gastroenterologists seem to share with their patients.The "st...

All the information you need after mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery so that you can focus on what matters most: healing and staying well.Why am I so tired all the time? What about these drains? Should I worry about lymphedema? Your mastectomy (with or without reconstruction) doesnít end when you leave the operating room. In Now What?, Amy Curran Baker, an occupational therapist who has had a double mastectomy and direct to implant breast reconstruction, and her...

For years Jacqueline Lagacé suffered from debilitating chronic arthritis pain in her hands, spine, and knees. Conventional medicine failed to provide any relief, and Lagacé, a medical researcher, began searching for alternatives. That search brought her to the work of Dr. Jean Seignalet, an expert in nutrition therapy, who used targeted nutrition to treat patients suffering from chronic inflammatory diseases. His approach was called the hypotoxic diet, and he achieved an 80 percent success...

The latest advice from the original bestselling Back DoctorTwenty-five years ago, Dr. Hamilton Hall wrote the book that changed the way back-pain sufferers deal with their affliction. In The Back Doctor, he advocated activity instead of bed rest. In place of braces and girdles, he suggested that patients follow a program of specific exercise. Most of all, he took the mystery out of back pain.Three out of four Canadian adults, and an increasing number of ch...

"Among all the recent books on medicine, Critical Care stands alone." — Pauline Chen, author of Final Exam"A must read for anyone who wants to understand healthcare. Extraordinary." — Elizabeth Cohen, MPH, CNN Senior Medical CorrespondentCritical Care is the powerful and absorbing memoir of Theresa Brown—a regular contributor to the New York Times blog "Well"—about her experiences during the first year on the job as an oncology nurse; in ...

Having a premature baby -- a baby born before the thirty-seventh week of pregnancy -- can be a crash course in both medicine and health economics, not just in parenting. Parents face complex information, difficult decisions, and overwhelming grief and worry -- with challenges that often extend well beyond those early days and weeks. As an ob/gyn, Dr. Jennifer Gunter has delivered hundreds of premature babies, but as a mother of preemie triplets, she also understands the heartbreak and chal...