Pain-Free Arthritis: A 7-Step Plan for Feeling Better Again

This is an excellent book for people inflicted with some form

of arthritic condition. The author recognizes the value of

anti-inflammatory agents; hence, there is a recommendation to

pursue the natural Boswelia anti-inflammatory agent. The authors

recommend exercises and stretching along with a program of

anti-oxidant support. The anti-oxidants consist of:

o blueberry

o kale

o strawberry

o spinach

o brussels sprouts

o plums

o broccoli

o beets

o oranges

o red grapes

There is a formula for computing body mass in order to arrive

at an ideal body frame and weight. There are specific

treatments for the ankylosing spondylitis condition.

These are embrel, methotrexate, heat treatments and exercise.

The book is a solid value as part of the medicinal library

of alternative treatments and combination therapies.

I have osteoarthritis and I have been searching for something that can tell me WHAT REALLY WORKS to end this pain. I mean, I'm only forty years old but years of playing basketball has worn out my knees. This book is a superb program that details specifically what works for diff. types of arthritis such as knee or hip. The section on natural therapies was especially helpful and the chapter on cutting edge medications was great. I learned a lot--that I did not know and that my doctor never told me!! Oh--the part on stress and pain was enlightening. I've been doing the exercises daily and also the moist heat applications as described in the first part of the book. I have FOUND RELIEF FROM knee osteoarthritis--finally. BUY THIS BOOK AND LIVE YOUR LIFE AGAIN

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If you wish you could ask your doctor questions about getting relief from arthritis pain and stiffness, you could find the answers in this book. Drs. McIlwain and Bruce offer incredibly reasonable and easy to understand suggestions for alleviating arthritis pain that is based on the latest medical journal studies. Pain-Free Arthritis gave me new insight into exercise as a method for ending pain--and it works! I've also found relief using the PAIN-FREE diet, focusing on fresh fruits and vegetables high in antioxidants and phytochemicals.

This book can help you to understand the various types of arthritis but, more importantly, it motivates you to take action to overcome the pain, stiffness and immmobility and reclaim your active life.

Particularly appealing to me was the information on natural therapies and botanicals, yoga positions for alleviating pain, and the advances in medications to end pain safely and effectively.

This book is extremely reader-friendly--and the program is first in the book, so you turn the page and find relief! It does not overwhelm you with medical verbage yet is well-researched. The program is sound and I highly recommend to arthritis sufferers of all ages.

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I highly recommend this book to anyone who has arthritis and who wants to end the pain using a lifestyle approach. The good doctor has given a multifaceted and holistic program that teaches readers how to change lifestyle habits to decrease pain and become more active. The chapter on the PAIN-FREE ARTHRITIS DIET was extremely beneficial to me, as I have rheumatoid arthritis. I was not aware of the food/inflammation/arthritis connection, so this report is cutting edge compared to other books in print.

If you want to stop pain without relying on medications that can cause harmful side effects, then read this book. I guarantee it will change your life and pain--as it has mine.

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The writers point out at the very beginning that seventy million Americans suffer from some form of arthritis with the number expected to balloon as the baby boomers become senior citizens. As such this reference book should be of interest to many readers as Dr. Harris H. McIlwain and Debra Fulghum Bruce provide an easy to follow summary of the various treatments available today. The authors furbish information that runs the gamut from exercise, diet, drugs and alternative therapies such as chiropractic and acupuncture. They include a detailed step by step approach to overcome or at least deal with the pain of arthritis so that the sufferer can maximize a positive lifestyle. Those seven steps are immediately provided in the introduction with detail in later chapters. The book enables the reader to understand the options and choose what is best of them. Thus PAIN-FREE ARTHRITUS: A 7-STEP PROGRAM FOR FEELING BETTER AGAIN is solid reading for those inflicted with this crippler and their families, but must reading for those who currently spell relief: none.

Harriet Klausner

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An Introduction to Reiki: Healing Energy for Mind, Body and Spirit

This beautiful little book drew my attention when I was "browsing" the natural health shelf at a local bookstore, not looking for anything in particular, just wondering what would call out to me. I knew nothing about Reiki at the time. But I loved what the title addressed: healing energy for mind, body and spirit. That's for me! So I paged through to find a world of beauty: Beauty in the graceful layout and generous number of lovely photographs. Beauty in the simple text that serves as a beginner's guide to Reiki: it's history and principles; the healing treatments involving the endocrine system, seven chakras, emotions and basic hand positions; first aid practices to relieve headache, back pain, stress and other common ailments; special treatments for children, the elderly, pets and plants; Reiki and other therapies such as color and crystal healing.

It truly was an introduction that motivated me to study more, find a Reiki teacher and learn to treat myself and others with Reiki as a spiritual way of life. Though I have since read many other worthwhile books, more detailed or inclusive, I still go back to this beauty for inspiration and guidance.

It's not as informative as it could be. In fact, you're probably better off doing a couple of Google searches for 'reiki' than you would be buying this book, unless you were looking for an outline of the discipline. For what it is, it's not bad.

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Complications: A Doctor's Love Story

This is the beautiful and true life love story of mid life soul mates finding each other at last, only to have their love challenged by insurmountable odds that even the most wide eyed optimist would find daunting. But Linda Gromko is not some wide eyed altruistic optimist. She's the real deal.

Two successful, productive, middle age longtime single parents fall in love and begin weaving their lives together. Outgoing and fun-loving, Steve Williams is a business executive with a 9 year old daughter and a large network of family and friends from the audio electronics and fitness equipment industries. More introverted and compassionate, former nurse Dr. Linda Gromko has a 27 year old adult son, an 85 year old mother, and a close-knit staff in her small urban family medicine practice, through which she has become engaged in GLBT issues. Even before they marry Steve suffers major medical problems, acute and chronic kidney failure. Over a six-year series of life-threatening health crises, he loses many things that had been most important to him: his career; active engagement in the daily life of his daughter and her friends; a beautiful Bainbridge Island home custom designed and frequently used for entertaining; good food, travel and other joys of a robust, affluent and interesting life. Linda is thrown into her special hell: having to divert attention from her intimate neighborhood medical practice to confront top levels of high-tech specialized medicine in two of the largest, most prestigious but most bureaucratic institutions in the region, not as an esteemed colleague but as advocate for her vulnerable husband. Dr. Gromko does not try to hide the fact that, exhausted by all this, neither is always at his or her cheerful, cooperative, optimistic best. But their love grows. His family and friends provide amazing comfort and support. He becomes interested in her issues and her writing. Her son eventually becomes a primary caregiver for his dying stepfather and a friend for his teenage stepsister. Although several of Linda's staff members encounter their own serious medical problems, they pull together to keep her clinic serving patients with little help from their employer, the only doctor. Linda taps into deep reserves of courage and stamina not only to care for Steve but also to take on a new cause--trying to help specialized medical providers become more compassionate and effective. Her two books on their ordeal, "Complications: a Doctor's Love Story," and "Let Me Go When the Banter Stops: A Doctor's Fight for the Love of Her Life," and her other writings, blogs and public speeches are part of that effort.

In our society many of the smartest, hardest working, most highly trained and motivated people focus on narrow specialties, providing technical wizardry but too often lacking in human compassion and social skills needed to work effectively with others, including colleagues and the very people they are trying to help. This is not unique to medicine; it also happens in law, business, politics, even nonprofit organizations. Through her heartbreaking but inspiring true love story, Dr. Gromko has diagnosed and provides perceptive insights into social problems far bigger than the medical profession.

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I found Linda Gromko's Love Story to be very well written, and very touching as well. Steve Williams is an aquaintence of mine from my college years and although I knew of his current condition, I had no idea of the trials and tribulations that one on dialysis must endure. Linda and Steve's daughter (Brita) are saints for loving, caring, and helping Steve through this journey. Having a few medical issues of my own, I found this a "feel good read". It is a tribute to love and friendship between a man and his wife and family. I look forward to the rumored sequil.

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I read this book because I'm working on computer software related to ESRD. I was looking for a book that would help me understand what the ESRD patients were living through, what their concerns were, what their lives were like.

Well, this book provided all that and more. It is an incredibly honest love story, well written, reads like a novel. Congratulations to Dr. Gromko for making the experience of ESRD understandable for those of us who have not had to deal with it.

I wish her and her family the best of luck but i think they have found their own luck and love.

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Dr. Gromko's wonderfully crafted book is a portrait of genuine love between her and her husband Steve, as they battle through life together against his end-stage kidney disease. Their love is genuine--not "LOVE" to get the wedding, or "LOVE" to get the babies, but love in its purest and richest of meanings, with sacrifice, compromise, laughter, mutual devotion and neverending hope. Her book is a treasure.

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Clothing and Textile Collections in the United States: A CSA Guide (Costume Society of America Serie

As a travel guide book it is quite comprehensive. At leaste so far as I thumbed through it. Even found the little house museum in my tiny little home town. And it does give notes in regard to what collections include. It is NOT however, a photo book that PICTURES the items in said collections. I didn't read carefully enough I guess, and had deluded myself into thinking it would have color plates. If you are fortunate enough to travel to see these museums, this would be an invaluable book. If however, you are like me, and can only afford to order the books published by the people who have seen the collections. This book will only make you wish you had a bottomless bank account and a car that didn't threaten to fall apart at the thought of going farther than ten miles!

Another book in the Costume Society of America (CSA) series, this guidebook has the familiar format of a tourist/visitor guide. The more than 2600 entries are by state with addresses and phone numbers. Hours, type of institution (e. g., historical, state), types of items in the collection, and a general description of these are found with many of the entries. For example, the Missouri Historical Collection in St. Louis has more than "16,000 pieces of clothing and textiles, dating from the late eighteenth century to the present." This collection's strengths include women's clothing and accessories from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Such helpful notes are one benefit of having editors with such extensive and deep experience as Queen and Berger. All historical ages, parts of the world, and many ethnic groups are covered by the numerous collections. For the majority of entries with no annotations, websites are listed where applicable; and for those which do not have a website, phone numbers are listed for obtaining further information.

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This guide provides valuable information for costume scholars doing research and seeking collections. But more than that, enthusiasts, collectors,(of quilts or flags, for example), or just people interested in seeing clothing housed in museums will find this state-by-state guide easy to use and informative. Even if you can't travel far afield, you can take an armchair tour and enjoy the photographs and other material in the guide. Even though I consider myself fairly knowledgeable, this guide has revealed collections I didn't know existed. This guide is bringing to light many hidden treasures that deserve to be seen and appreciated.

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This is an invaluable tool for researchers studying any type of textiles, from flags to clothing. The book is about as comprehensive as it gets, listing historic sites, museums, and other collections. There is nothing else comparable for those interested in this topic. Important details are included for larger collections, along with contact information for each listing. This is a wonderful book that was written to promote research and facilitate contact among those studying textile collections.

Robert M Dunkerly

US National Park Ranger

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College-level holdings strong in costume history will find CLOTHING AND TEXTILE COLLECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES: A CSA GUIDE a fine survey of the collections available the first such guide in print. Over 2,600 American collections are included in listings that hold location and contact information and often descriptions of holdings. From drama producers and museum directors to students of textiles and costume history, CLOTHING AND TEXTILE COLLECTIONS IN THE U.S. is an excellent guide.

Diane C. Donovan

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Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images (New Middle Ages)

As is the case with many books compiled from excellent work created by diverse authors, this book could warrant a review of each chapter. The book covers the fifth through the sixteenth centuries, from Ireland to Italy and the Mediterranean, and is compiled into three sections based on date(s) covered by the articles.

This tome discusses the distinctions of levels of society as delineated by clothing, the development of the textile industry, and the use of textile analogies in period literature. It examines textile depictions found on monuments, in sculpture, in paintings, and on manuscripts. But in its fourteen chapters this volume manages to convey a cohesive and encompassing view of textiles in the medieval period. It offers the reader not only interesting facts, but the authors' excellent work convincingly connects the dots so as to give clothing a life of its own in the context of the times.

Chapters such as Dressing the Part, From Content to Form and Marie de France's Bisclavret deliver both sides of the coin: we are what we wear as well as wearing what we are entitled due to class structure. Without clothes, Bisclaveret is a wolf, un-recognizable; with clothes he is a nobleman, although Gloria Thomas Gilmore discusses the balance of both sides of the coin. Does form follow function, or is function a result of the form?

In Christ as a Windblown Sleeve, Margarita Yanson explores the changing costumes within Gottried von Strassburg's Tristan where changes in clothing mark the complexity of the main character, Tristan. Simularly, in As Proud as a Dog in a Doublet, Linda Anderson sees costume as an integral part of the play. On the other hand, The Margaret Fitzgerald Tomb Effegy comments on the strong nationalism in the dress of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, when adherance to national norms was seen as akin to patriotic act, and changing one's dress could be seen as treason and situates the effegy within the context of the time.

The chapters written by the editors are pivotal and act to anchor the rest of the book. Snyder's work discusses not only the sculpural forms in the column-figures and document seals in great detail, but in discussing the dress pictured from England to Germany it provides both an overview and excellent detail. Inserted between two chapters that draw from literary sources, the sharp images of the columns offer the mind a break as the detail is made visible to the eye as well as to the mind. Désirée Koslin's chapter touches on materials, dyes, weaving, finishing and meaning of cloth and clothing. Even through its title the final chapter is an overview and a case study. In many ways, it rounds out and sums up the book in a very satisfactory manner.

From art and legal manuscripts to archeological evidence and period documents the authors describe dress and its importance in great detail. The rich description plus the illustrations paint a lucid image of the clothing of the time in detail suitable for recreating the costumes discussed, while the discussion of the meaning of such explores timeless issues regarding the role of clothing and cloth in society and the lives of individuals. Black and white images throughout illustrate the chapters, and a seven page glossary makes terms that may be unfamiliar to some understandable without reaching for the dictionary, and a comprehensive index makes revisiting bits of information a breeze. Although this book is aimed at the student of the medieval period, and specifically at someone interested in the dress of the period, those interested in philosophy and dress in general can see parallels throughout the ages making this a book of value. Reading this book has made me think about dress more closely, not only in a historical context, but also while people-watching, and in movies such as the Matrix trilogy where dress has layers of meaning.

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Getting To The Core Of Apple Cider Vinegar:The Ultimate Guide Book To Apple Cider Vinegar Health Ben

My wife suffers from acid reflux and I had read where red apples can help cure or at least stop the misery. When she eats the apple she does not suffer and now I have read where apple cider vinegar can do the same. We will surely give it a try and maybe it will lower my cholesterol as well. This a good read, easy to understand, well organized in the content. One thing for sure I don't think any harm can come by trying vinegar, like anything use common sense and use this book for a great reference.

Ok, so it seems that I may have been living under a rock! I was not aware of this liquid and its health benefits! As I am right 'into' cleaning up my act and improving my health at the moment, I decided to check this book out and I am glad that I did! The reason I am seeking health information is that I need to get my diabetes under control, and other things that have been impacted by, and are impacting this disease, are high cholestrol and being overweight.

Imagine my delight when I read that these are some of the health issues that using Apple Cider Vinegar can address, among others that I suffer with! What I found particularly useful was that the author didn't just say 'oh it's good for this', he gave guidance on specific amounts to be used and pointed out what to look for in a good vinegar so that you get a mix that is beneficial.

The author is also responsible in his delivery of the information, any scientific evidence that exists, when there is only anecdotal evidence, and any caution that should be taken in relation to medication etc. A well researched and written book with a balanced approach. Thankyou for this information Mr Stiles.

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Getting to the Core of Apple Cider Vinegar was such a delight to read! The author lays aside the hype, the misleading claims, & helps the reader navigate through what is known & what isn't known about apple cider vinegar. Unbiased, logical, practical terminology makes each chapter a rich source of information. Simply written, Getting to the Core of Apple Cider Vinegar keeps the reader's attention & makes for an easy read, leaving the reader feeling enlightened & better able to make whatever decision he or she was seeking in his or her own life regarding apple cider vinegar. With the onslaught of information available on apple cider vinegar, it's refreshing to find a resource that helps dig through the confusion to make a large window of understanding.

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You will be amazed at all of the uses for apple cider vinegar. I knew some of what the author offers from my sister, who is a cook and home economist. But the author really thoroughly researched this topic and this book is a treasure of information well worth reading.

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I thought this book was well presented, with the author providing balanced information on the benefits and the possible dangers of using apple cider vinegar to help cure various ailments. Whilst there are few proven scientific facts, this book certainly helps to distinguish between myth and truth. A very interesting read.

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