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Self-management of long-term health conditions
Kate Lorig
Filled with hundreds of proven tips, helpful suggestions and concrete strategies to deal with chronic illness, this book explains how to manage emotions and to live a productive life.
How to feel better : practical ways to recover well from illness and injury
Dr. Frances Goodheart
We neglect what scientific studies show is a vital element of recovery: the emotional side of getting better. As a result, many of us struggle with hidden issues such as depression, stress and anxiety long after a health crisis. This book centres on the crucial, research-based truth that 'getting better' is not just about the body - emotions play a huge part.
The heart attack survival guide
Mark Greener
This title aims to help people at high risk prevent their first or subsequent heart attack as well as helping those who experience a heart attack get back to a normal life as soon as possible. It shows that by combining drugs and lifestyle changes can help you survive - and prevent - heart attacks.
Tom Smith
This book explains the symptoms of angina, and describes how the heart works, and how it can go wrong. The author looks at how lifestyle and diet can affect the risks of developing angina, and describes how treatments work.
Steve Haines
'How can I change my pain experience?', 'what is pain?', 'how do nerves work?'. Answering these questions and more, this research-based book reveals just how strange pain is and how understanding it is often the key to relieving its effects. With gentle humour, it explains pain in an easy-to-understand way and explores our remarkable ability to retrain the brain.
Manage your pain : practical and positive ways of adapting to chronic pain
Michael Nicholas
Chronic pain is a silent epidemic, with one in five people suffering in their day-to-day life. An indispensible guide to understanding why your pain persists, what is going on inside your body and the symptoms that pain triggers, Manage Your Pain presents possible medical treatments and guides you through practical exercises for daily life. Dr Nicholas and Dr Molloy's strategies make it possible to set short and long term goals that will minimise the impact of pain on both work and leisure. In short, this book offers clarity and control.
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