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The Polio Paradox: Understanding and Treating "Post-Polio Syndrome" and Chronic Fatigue
ISBN: 9780446690690 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Polio is a disease of paradoxes, the major one being that although the threat of the dreaded disease'' ended with the Salk vaccine in 1954, many polio survivors are now experiencing the onset of Post-Polio Syndrome'' (PPS), new but related symptoms which may include chronic fatigue, muscle weakness, intolerance to cold, and more.
Polio is a disease of paradoxes, the major one being that although the threat of the dreaded disease'' ended with the Salk vaccine in 1954, many polio...
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121,32 zł |
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What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM) Back Pain: The 6-Step Program for Lasting Relief
ISBN: 9780446694957 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Millions of Americans suffer from chronic back pain, but what most don't realize is that their ailment is often caused by a combination of factors. According to Dr. Debra K. Weiner, identifying the disorders that contribute to chronic back pain is a critical part of the treatment process. To achieve lasting relief, a multifaceted, multidisciplinary approach is needed--no single pill or therapeutic procedure will solve the problem. In this authoritative guide, Dr. Weiner has distilled 20 years of research and clinical practice into an integrative six-step program. Readers will learn: how to...
Millions of Americans suffer from chronic back pain, but what most don't realize is that their ailment is often caused by a combination of factors. Ac...
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141,10 zł |
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The American Yoga Associations Easy Does It Yoga: The Safe and Gentle Way to Health and Well Being
ISBN: 9780684848907 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Regain your health, vitality, and independence through this age-old approach to fitness Whether you're an older adult just beginning to exercise, you're physically weak due to an illness or injury, or you haven't worked out in a while, The American Yoga Association's Easy Does It(R) Yoga is a safe, easy-to-use guide to renewed physical and emotional wellness. For thousands of years people have turned to yoga to enhance their quality of life. Yoga gradually builds physical flexibility and strength, improves concentration, relieves stress, increases energy, and develops the ability...
Regain your health, vitality, and independence through this age-old approach to fitness Whether you're an older adult just beginning to exercise, you...
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78,81 zł |
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Back Sense: A Revolutionary Approach to Halting the Cycle of Chronic Back Pain
ISBN: 9780767905817 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On occasion nearly everyone experiences short-term back pain from sore or strained muscles. But for many who come to treat their back gingerly because they fear further -injury, - a cycle of worry and inactivity results; this aggravates existing muscle tightness and leads them to think of themselves as having a -bad back.- Even worse is the understandable but usually counterproductive assumption that back pain is caused by -abnormalities--bulging disks, a damaged spine, and so on. However, these abnormalities are frequently found in those who have absolutely no pain whatsoever. In reality,...
On occasion nearly everyone experiences short-term back pain from sore or strained muscles. But for many who come to treat their back gingerly because...
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78,81 zł |
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Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity
ISBN: 9780814751343 / Angielski / Miękka / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. And a remarkable groundswell of activism and critical literature has followed in this wake. Claiming Disability is the first comprehensive examination of Disability Studies as a field of inquiry. Disability Studies is not simply about the variations that exist in human behavior, appearance, functioning, sensory acuity, and cognitive processing but the meaning we make of those... From public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere since the passag... |
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115,59 zł |
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Deaf Sport – The Impact of Sports within the Deaf Community
ISBN: 9780930323745 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Deaf Sport"describes the full ramifications of athletics for Deaf people, from the meaning of individual participation to the cultural bonding resulting from their organization."Deaf Sport"profiles noted deaf sports figures and the differences particular to Deaf sports, such as the use of sign language for score keeping, officiating, and other communication. "Deaf Sport"describes the full ramifications of athletics for Deaf people, from the meaning of individual participation to the cultural bonding res... |
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157,71 zł |
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Reversing Chronic Pain: A 10-Point All-Natural Plan for Lasting Relief
ISBN: 9781556436765 / Angielski / Miękka / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reversing Chronic Pain offers a dynamic framework for joining body and mind to speed the healing of traumatic pain from the body level up. Each chapter presents a body-centered skill set that can be mastered through a broad menu of practice exercises. The resulting interlinked somatic building blocks help readers shift from physical pain to body awareness, and from unstoppable suffering to heartfelt connection and peace.
Building on the AIDS cocktail approach that reflects the fact that chronic pain is complex and no one tactic is likely to solve the problem, renowned expert Maggie... Reversing Chronic Pain offers a dynamic framework for joining body and mind to speed the healing of traumatic pain from the body level up. Each...
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88,12 zł |
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Living with Chronic Neurologic Disease: A Handbook for Patient and Family
ISBN: 9780393064162 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past two decades at the Institute of Neuroscience at St. Barnabas Hospital, Dr. I. S. Cooper and his colleagues have examined and treated more than 30,000 patients with chronic neurologic disease. In this book, Dr. Copper speaks directly to both patient and family as though they were with him in his consulting room. He offers counsel about selecting a physician and establishing a relationship based on mutual trust and respect. He deals with the problems of anxiety and loneliness, and helps the patient plan as fruitful and independent a life as possible. Physical therapy and forms of...
Over the past two decades at the Institute of Neuroscience at St. Barnabas Hospital, Dr. I. S. Cooper and his colleagues have examined and treated mor...
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104,86 zł |
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Looking Up : A Humorous and Unflinching Account of Learning to Live Again With Sudden Disability
ISBN: 9780753513866 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tim Rushby-Smith fell six metres out of a tree and broke his back, confining him to a wheelchair. This book provides an account of how he learned to live with disability, from overwhelming feelings of anger and despair, and learned how to face the future h
Tim Rushby-Smith fell six metres out of a tree and broke his back, confining him to a wheelchair. This book provides an account of how he learned to l...
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88,48 zł |
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The New Arthritis Cure: Eliminate Arthritis and Fibromyalgia Pain Permanently
ISBN: 9780941599825 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reveals the true cause of arthritis and fibromyalgia. Up till now these conditions have been considered incurable. The reason for this is that doctors have not recognized the cause, and without knowing the cause it is virtually impossible to develop a cure. Recent medical research, however, has established a clear cause and effect connection. The underlying cause for all the major forms of arthritis and for fibromyalgia is now known. Drugs aren't the answer. However, there are natural health-promoting therapies that do work and can stop the progression of the disease and encourage...
This book reveals the true cause of arthritis and fibromyalgia. Up till now these conditions have been considered incurable. The reason for this is th...
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78,21 zł |
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Once Upon a Challenge: Hearing is Believing
ISBN: 9781440154096 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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61,08 zł |
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Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healing
ISBN: 9781936303021 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healingis a deeply soothing form of moving meditation and a physical activity and is a safe way to rebuild strength, stamina, and flexibility and to address the spinal curvature of scoliosis without surgery. The book presents an evidence-based look at how this approach works. Dr. Fishman has been treating individuals with scoliosis with yoga for many years and has collected x-rays of his work, before and after, demonstrating actual lessening of the degree of curvature from the practice of Iyengar yoga.
Yoga and Scoliosis: A... Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healingis a deeply soothing form of moving meditation and a physical activity and is a safe way t...
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96,11 zł |
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Cycle of Hope: A Journey From Paralysis to Possiblity
ISBN: 9780998430201 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,72 zł |
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Surface Tensions: Surgery, Bodily Boundaries, and the Social Self
ISBN: 9781611320978 / Angielski / Twarda / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change--the loss of limbs, the loss of function, the loss or replacement of organs. Against a sweeping cultural backdrop of art, popular culture, and the history of science and medicine, Manderson uses narrative epistemology based on in-depth interviews with over 300 individuals to show how they re-establish the coherence of their bodies, identities, and biographies. In addition to offering important new insights into the care, rehabilitation, and rehabituation of post-trauma...
Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change--the loss of limbs, the loss of ...
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814,81 zł |
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Independence Without Sight or Sound: Suggestions for Practioners Working with Deaf-Blind Adults
ISBN: 9780891282464 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Independence without Sight or Sound covers the essential aspects of communicating and working with deaf-blind adults--individuals who have both vision and hearing loss. Written in a personal and informal style, it is filled with practical information for any professional who works with someone who is deaf-blind, such as how to talk with someone who is deaf-blind, how deaf-blind people can communicate with strangers and interact with people in public, and how they can overcome isolation and assert control over their own life. Written by an expert in orientation and mobility, this guide...
Independence without Sight or Sound covers the essential aspects of communicating and working with deaf-blind adults--individuals who have both vision...
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259,67 zł |
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Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: Personal and Professionals Perspectives on Age-Related Macular Degeneration
ISBN: 9780891284857 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind presents a personal account of living successfully with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), combined with powerful new information on effective service delivery. Ninety-three-year old Lindy Bergman illustrates the ways in which life with low vision can be lived with independence, dignity, and personal satisfaction. Also included are highly informative chapters, written by the world-renowned experts from The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who are Blind or Visually Impaired, encompassing the latest information about the causes and treatment of AMD; a concise,...
Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind presents a personal account of living successfully with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), combined with powerful n...
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215,52 zł |
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22 Accessible Road Trips
ISBN: 9781936303267 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bronze Winner 2012 Foreword Reviews Book of The Year, Travel Guides Category 22 Accessible Road Trips contains useful and detailed information about accessible travel, that's readable, informative and pertinent. The book is aimed at those who use wheelchairs, walkers or just have mobility issues. Organized geographically, the book is divided into 22 chapters, with each chapter detailing a loop driving route that can be completed in approximately 2-3 weeks. The routes are spaced throughout the US, with each route having a theme or a commonality. Each route begins in a...
Bronze Winner 2012 Foreword Reviews Book of The Year, Travel Guides Category 22 Accessible Road Trips contains useful and detaile...
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109,46 zł |
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Meniere Man And The Butterfly. The Meniere Effect.: How To Minimize The Effect Of Meniere's On Family, Money, Lifestyle, Dreams And You.
ISBN: 9780980715545 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PAPERBACK INCLUDES FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE KINDLE EBOOK
If you read Meniere Man's other books, you know the Author's personal 'solo-recovery' (without surgery) was a ground-breaking success story. But along with recovery, a catastrophe happened. The Author battled Meniere's disease on two fronts. He fought Meniere's and recovered his physical health but lost the fight to save his material world; the family home, future assets and his business career. This is a book HE wishes someone had written for him Meniere's disease can affect not only your general sense of well... PAPERBACK INCLUDES FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE KINDLE EBOOK
If you read Meniere Man's other books, you know the Author's personal 'solo-re... |
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83,85 zł |
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Surviving Life: Through Faith, Hope and Love
ISBN: 9781478709732 / Angielski / Twarda / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I have been blessed to share Cori's journey through life. I have also discovered that life isn't short of resources; it is about the opportunities that we have been given. I have found that life begins at the end of your comfort zone, and doing things that used to be "outside the box" challenges the opinions of one's single-minded beliefs. You would think that by surviving with limitations, you're grounded or destined to only live life within your abilities and not beyond. Do not allow your restrictions to be an excuse to ground you. Do not accept that you can only live a certain life. Cori...
I have been blessed to share Cori's journey through life. I have also discovered that life isn't short of resources; it is about the opportunities tha...
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156,68 zł |
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From Tragedy to Triumph: The Story of John Tartaglio
ISBN: 9780991259212 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 24 hours, a rare bacterial infection turned healthy 17-year-old John Tartaglio into a double-leg amputee, but 15 hours and 59 minutes is all that it took for him to reclaim the life that he had left behind. This is his story of perseverance over a heartbreaking circumstance as incomprehensible as it is seemingly insurmountable. Amputated up to his hip bones and told he would never walk again, John did not give up on life. Instead, he rose to do what others said he could not. Walking, running, competing, but most importantly living, he proved to them what he had always known his disability...
In 24 hours, a rare bacterial infection turned healthy 17-year-old John Tartaglio into a double-leg amputee, but 15 hours and 59 minutes is all that i...
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68,91 zł |
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