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An anthology of more than 50 stories about the other side of treating diabetes—what health care providers can learn from patients. With more than 1,000 combined years of working with patients, the contributors share their knowledge and the life-altering experiences that both challenge and change the way health care professionals provide care to their patients. This inspirational work proves that knowledge can be learned from books, but wisdom can only be gained through years of...
| Автор | David G. Marrero |
User-friendly guide covers all aspects of insulin use in type 2 diabetesThe American Diabetes Association Guide to Insulin & Type 2 Diabetes addresses common fears about insulin therapy and what is involved with beginning to use insulin. Additional chapters discuss fine-tuning of insulin self-management, gadgets to make life easier, and troubleshooting steps to overcome any problems readers may have.
| Автор | Marie McCarren |
Diabetes greatly affects how people's bodies manage the food they eat. It is essential that people with diabetes follow a carefully structured meal plan and learn specific skills in order to better control their blood glucose levels. The tactics for helping people manage their diabetes through how they eat is called medical nutrition therapy (MNT).Here the American Diabetes Association presents all of the key information and strategies for effectively teaching patients how to manage their...
| Автор | Marion J. Franz |
As governments and health care systems direct more attention and resources to treating the rising rates of obesity worldwide, one thing has become very clear: obesity is best treated as a chronic condition. The most effective approach to care is often a behavioral one, in which health care providers and patients rely on teamwork, respect, and conversation to motivate lifestyle change. This collaborative model is essential because decisions about care ultimately rest with the patient. Working...
| Автор | Birgitta Adolfsson |
With this book readers learn how to take care of themselves or someone they love when diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Completely updated, this second edition of Type 2 Diabetes for Beginners provides insight and information on how to live with diabetes. Checking blood sugar, taking medications, planning meals, losing weight, combating stress and depression, and dealing with long-term diabetes problems are just a few of the topics covered in this friendly, easy-to-read guide.
| Автор | Phyllis Barrier |
8 Weeks to Maximizing Diabetes Control is the diabetes management plan that helps you manage your diabetes. It’s the plan for when you don’t have a plan. The week-by-week approach of this book shows you how to put together a health care team, manage medications, understand and implement the basics of meal planning, improve blood glucose self-monitoring, start an exercise program, and more. Other books are encyclopedias about diabetes, but 8 Weeks to Maximizing Diabetes...
| Автор | Laura Hieronymus |
The American Diabetes Association—the nation's leading health organization supporting diabetes research, information, and advocacy—has completely revised this comprehensive home reference to provide all the information a person needs to live an active, healthy life with diabetes. Now in its fifth edition, this extensive resource contains information on the best self-care techniques and the latest medical advances. For people with diabetes, this extraordinary guide will...
| Автор | American Diabetes Association |
This book takes a whole new perspective concerning the approach to treating aging process. Most doctors feel they have no other options but to operate on the physical processes that occur as we grow older. Now, for the first time, there is another scientific approach that impacts on the causes of aging and not just on the effects. The basic principles and practice of anti-aging medicine and age management clearly and succinctly explains the solid scientific research behind doctor...
| Автор | Dr. Vincent C. Giampapa |
User-friendly resource presents state-of-the-art management of orthopaedic trauma Orthopaedic trauma spans the full spectrum of injury, from simple fractures to life-threatening accidents with multiple broken bones. As such, these incidents are a common reason patients visit emergency departments and receive treatment from orthopaedic surgeons. Synopsis of Orthopaedic Trauma Management by nationally recognized experts Brian Mullis, Greg Gaski, and esteemed contributors fills a gap in the...
| Автор | Brian H. Mullis |
Esta nueva compilación de Pablo Bottini se alinea con la publicada hace ya más de diez años. Nuevamente se encuentran en ella textos diversos, representantes de los diferentes modelos nocionales en los que anidan las prácticas de la Psicomotricidad y sus reflexiones. Se encuentran también representados aquí diferentes países, tanto europeos como latinoamericanos, en los que la Psicomotricidad por medio del ejercicio sostenido de los colegas que allí habitan, se ha ganado un legítimo lugar. ...
| Автор | Miguel Sassano |
Taping ist eine sanfte, medikamentenfreie und leicht zu erlernende Technik. Zahlreiche Beschwerden lassen sich damit ursächlich behandeln, und viele Sportverletzungen – beispielsweise Tennisellenbogen oder Achillessehnenprobleme bei Läufern, Fußballern oder anderen Sportarten – können mit den geeigneten Tapeanlagen positiv beeinflusst werden. Hinzu kommt der stabilisierende Effekt der Tapes selbst, der Überlastungsschäden verhindern kann. In über 500 Abbildungen und ergänzt durch hilfreiche...
| Автор | Roland Kreutzer |
Yoga is an extremely beneficial therapy for ameliorating physical symptoms of both Parkinson's disease (PD) and multiple sclerosis (MS), and improving emotional wellbeing through breathing, asana, relaxation and meditation. Outlining each condition, its pathology, treatment and its impact on the lives of those affected, the book describes how yoga practice can be tailored to meet the specific needs of those with PD and MS, by improving mobility, balance, strength and wellbeing. Postures...
| Автор | Jean Danford |
Das bewährte Praxisbuch «Die Akupunktur» von Dr. med. Susanne Bihlmaier vermittelt auch in dieser komplett überarbeiteten 3. Auflage die Grundlagen der traditionellen chinesischen Medizin (TCM), ihrer Anwendung und die Lokalisation der wesentlichen Akupunkturpunkte. Ein ausgefeiltes didaktisches Konzept, zahlreiche Tabellen, Übersichten, Zusammenfassungen und wertvolle Praxistipps erleichtern dabei das Verstehen und Lernen. Das Werk ist die ideale Einstiegslektüre, indem es Lernende und Anwender...
| Автор | Susanne Bihlmaier |
Foot problems are a key concern for people with diabetes. Common foot issues usually stem from loss of sensation and can lead to ulcers and sometimes amputation. There are ways to avoid these issues and care for feet that are at risk, but such information is either spread all over larger self-care encyclopedias or hidden on websites across the Internet.21 Things You Need to Know about Diabetes and Your Feet fills this gap by offering people with diabetes the key tips and strategies in diabetic...
| Автор | Neil M. Scheffler |
In a clear and concise style, the extensively revised Putting Your Patients on the Pump offers physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, clinicians, and educators experience and practical guidance on how to help patients successfully manage their diabetes using an insulin pump. Ten chapters provide an in-depth description of insulin pump therapy advantages and disadvantages, pump and infusion set options and selection, pump candidate basics, getting the patient ready, pump start-up,...
| Автор | Karen M. Bolderman |
Approaches to Behavior provides information and simple tools that healthcare professionals can use to help patients move beyond feelings that prevent them from benefiting fully from any learning opportunity. Each chapter opens with an introduction to experts’ newest psychological understanding about a common emotion. This is followed by a list of easy techniques healthcare professionals can employ with their patients. Each technique was contributed by experienced mental health experts...
| Автор | Janis Roszler |
Over 29 million Americans have diabetes. Of those millions of people, the majority take at least one medication to treat their diabetes, but also take additional medications or supplements for other conditions. With this complex array of medications across such a broad and diverse population, potential contraindications are a real possibility. Diabetes Risks from Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs surveys the medication landscape and provides brief yet illuminating information on the...
| Автор | Samuel Dagogo-Jack |
Rather than providing lengthy explanations on nutrition and meal planning, this book cuts right to the point, directly answering the 21 most common questions and issues that people with diabetes ask about their nutrition. Most questions are answered in a single page, cutting through the confusion and getting right to business. Written by two nutrition professionals on staff at the American Diabetes Association, readers will know that they are getting the official word from the leading diabetes...
| Автор | Stephanie A. Dunbar |
Written by three psychologists with more than 50 years of collective experience in the field of diabetes and youth, Teens with Diabetes provides evidence-based techniques for clinicians to treat the psychological needs of children with diabetes and help them transition into their teenage years. The authors have provided care to thousands of diabetic teens and their families from initial diagnosis to leaving home for college. Any professional working with diabetic teens, including psychologists,...
| Автор | Michael A. Harris |
A diabetes diagnosis no longer means giving up an active life. New technology, such as insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors, can help people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes stay active and flexible and maintain healthy attitudes and lifestyles. Insulin Pumps and Continuous Glucose Monitoring explains how this new technology can dramatically improve care, as well as how to prepare for the physical and psychological challenges that come with these new regimens. It provides a...
| Автор | Francine R. Kaufman |
Physical movement has a positive effect on physical fitness, morbidity, and mortality in individuals with diabetes. Although exercise has long been considered a cornerstone of diabetes management, many health care providers fail to prescribe it. In addition, many fitness professionals may be unaware of the complexities of including physical activity in the management of diabetes. Giving patients or clients a full exercise prescription that take other chronic conditions commonly accompanying...
| Автор | Sheri R. Colberg |
As the number of patients with diabetes increases annually, it is not surprising that the number of patients with diabetes who are admitted to the hospital also increases. Once in the hospital, patients with diabetes or hyperglycemia may be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, require urgent or elective surgery, enteral or parenteral nutrition, intravenous insulin infusion, or therapies that significantly impact glycemic control (e.g., steroids). Because many clinical outcomes are influenced by...
| Автор | Boris Draznin |
America is suffering from two public health crises. One is caused by a virus. The other, a brutal economic shutdown, is something we have brought on ourselves. Both the virus and the shutdown are deadly. But many more Americans will likely die from getting laid off than from the virus.The shutdown wasn’t caused by the virus. It was a frantic response to America’s unpreparedness. For more than two decades, a dozen official reports sounded the alarm. The career pols and federal bureaucrats did...
| Автор | Betsy McCaughey |
Wie können wir unser empfindsamstes Organ schützen? Das Herz reagiert besonders sensibel auf Emotionen, Stress und Überanstrengung – und soll doch drei Milliarden Mal im Laufe eines Lebens schlagen. Was können wir tun, um es zu schützen und zu pflegen? Sehr viel, ist die Botschaft von Professor Gustav Dobos. Basierend auf moderner Naturheilkunde und neuer Forschung zeigt er: 90 Prozent der Infarkte lassen sich durch einen weniger riskanten Lebensstil verhindern. Zum Beispiel indem wir lernen,...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |