Optimal health with multiple sclerosis : a guide to integrating lifestyle, alternative, and conventional medicine
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- ISBN: 9781936303700 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1936303701 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781617052088 (ebk.)
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Physical Description:
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xvi, 430 pages ; 23 cm - Publisher: New York : Demos Health, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-408) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | pt. 1. Introduction. -- Alternative medicine and lifestyle medicine -- Placebos and nocebos -- Important precautions about complementary and alternative medicine, lifestyle medicine, and multiple sclerosis -- pt. 2. Optimal health with multiple sclerosis : a seven-step guide to intergrating lifestyle, alternative, and conventional medicine. -- Introduction -- General concepts -- Helpful strategies -- Step1: Disease-modifying medications -- Step 2: Diet, dietary supplements, and weight management -- Step 3: Tobacco and alcohol use -- Step 4: Physical activity -- Step 5: Personal and social well-being -- Step 6: Prevention and management of other medical conditions -- Step 7: Symptom management -- pt. 3. Types of lifestyle and unconventional medicine. -- Acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine -- Alcohol -- Aromatherapy -- Aspartame -- Ayurveda -- Bee venom therapy and other forms of apitherapy -- Biofeedback -- Candida treatment -- Chelation therapy -- Chiropractic medicine -- Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency -- Colon therapy, detoxification, and enemas -- Cooling therapy -- Craniosacral therapy -- Dental amalgam removal -- Enzyme therapy -- Exercise -- Fats : fish oil and polyunsaturated fatty acids -- Feldenkrais -- Fiber -- Gluten sensitivity and celiac disease -- Guided imagery -- Herbs -- Hippotherapy and therapeutic horseback riding -- Homeopathy -- Hyperbaric oxygen -- Hypnosis -- Low-dose naltrexone -- Magnets and electromagnetic therapy -- Marijuana -- Message -- Meditation -- Mindfulness -- Music therapy -- Obesity and weight management -- Paleolithic diets -- Pets -- The pilates method and physicalmind method -- Prayer and spirituality -- Probiotics and the gut microbiome -- Prokarin -- Reflexology -- Salt -- Tai Ching and Qigong -- Therapeutic touch -- Tobacco and smoking cessation -- Toxins -- Tragerwork -- Vitamins, minerals, and other nonherbal supplements -- Yoga -- Appendix 1: Ratings of lifestyle and unconventional therapies -- Appendix 2: Dietary supplements and herbs that have MS-relevant side effects or drug interactions. |
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Subject: | Multiple sclerosis Alternative treatment Multiple sclerosis Treatment Multiple Sclerosis therapy |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | RC 377 .B69 2014 | 30775305507437 | General Collection | Available | - |