So I was stupid and slept with the wife of one of the college deans where I taught, and now I'm out of a job. I'm only 29, and I refuse to go home with my tail between my legs and work in a coal mine like my old man and my brother. Sioux Falls, South Dakota isn't paradise, but I like it better here than where I grew up.Then a buddy gave me a card with a phone number on it. In three weeks, I could make twenty grand. Legally.There's only one hitch: for those three weeks, this...

Your Body Book helps you stay healthy and heal when injured or in pain. It provides information about your body, specifically the musculoskeletal system — muscles, bones, and joints. This self-help health care book includes a head-to-toe review of the body, identifies problems and solutions to decrease pain and swelling, offers health tips and illustrated exercises to restore motion, improve strength, and promote healing. The more you know, the more successfully you can manage your health ...

After getting fired from my job for being stupid and sleeping with a married woman with a grudge against one of the deans where I taught, a buddy gave me a business card.This led to me going gay-for-pay and spending three weeks with the Bear's Back Motorcycle Club, getting gangbanged on film for their porn flicks.Just one problem—I really liked it.Make that two problems—I fell in love with Biggs, the Club president.Add in a third problem—if I want to be with...

After getting fired from my job for being stupid and sleeping with a married woman with a grudge against one of the deans where I taught, a buddy gave me a business card.This led to me going gay-for-pay and spending three weeks with the Bear's Back Motorcycle Club, getting gangbanged on film for their porn flicks.Just one problem—I really liked it.Make that two problems—I fell in love with Biggs, the Club president.Add in a third problem—if I want to be with...

Welp, that happened. I hit a low spot in my life, called a number on a business card a buddy gave me…And now this formerly straight guy is married to another guy, Biggs.Who happens to be a gay porn star, and who's also the head of a motorcycle club.How the hell did I get…here?Even more strange, why do I love this—and Biggs—so much?But I can't ponder that for too long. A fluke accident has temporarily put us short a star and put shooting on h...

WHY DO YOUR KNEES HURT?WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT?Going beyond quick fixes, a leading orthopedic surgeon shows you how to stop damaging and start saving your knees, the body's hardest-working and most complex joint.Once you understand the source of your pain, whether from sports or overuse injuries, osteoarthritis, tendinitis, heredity, or a host of other causes -- then you can choo...

75% of pain is caused by trigger points (areas of contracted cells in muscle tissue), but they are drastically under-diagnosed as the source of pain, including headaches and migraines. Trigger points may refer pain and other symptoms both in the local area and/or to other areas of the body, but since over 74% of trigger points are not located in the area where you feel pain, treating the local area does not resolve the problem most of the time. The most common "referral patterns" have been...

A complete medical examination includes a history, physical examination and basic laboratory analysis. Performed with compassion and care, it provides a diagnosis eighty percent of the time.Busy physicians, who find themselves pressed for the time necessary to complete this important task, compromise this complicated and time-consuming procedure. As a result, initial diagnosis is prone to errors and delays negatively affecting the patient and physician alike.As the new gove...

Obstructive sleep apnea quietly destroys memory, motivation, and even marriages. Jobs are lost, promotions delayed, and relationships strained. Performance and workplace safety is threatened, as is the ability to excel where the now-sleep-deprived once thrived. In Freedom from CPAP: Sleep Apnea Hurts, the Cure Doesn’t Have To, authors and doctors David Dillard and Mayoor Patel have teamed up to provide a uniquely comprehensive overview of sleep apnea from both an ENT and a dental perspecti...

Just had torn rotator cuff surgery? Don't want to suffer rotator cuff pain again? Cure your rotator cuff injury all on your own with effective rotator cuff exercises. Learn what medical professionals don't want you to know.

There is danger in delaying the evaluation of an unexplained medical symptom.The author lists thirty-four such symptoms, describes them in detail, lists the possible diagnoses the symptoms may represent, their urgency, and the consequences of delay in diagnosis.Procrastination is the thief of time and results in many preventable deaths. Hopefully, the book will stimulate patients to a more prompt appraisal of an unexplained symptom.

Atrial fibrillation (AF or A-fib) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heart beat). It may cause no symptoms, but it is often associated with palpitations, fainting, chest pain, or congestive heart failure. However, in some people atrial fibrillation is caused by otherwise idiopathic or benign conditions.AF increases the risk of stroke; the degree of stroke risk can be up to seven times that of the average population, depending on the presence of additional risk factors...