Living with rheumatoid arthritis
Book - 2024
"This work is a revised edition of the classic, comprehensive, and trusted guide to rheumatoid arthritis"--
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Fourth edition
- Physical Description
- xxi, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781421449890
9781421449883
- 0. Preface
- 0. Acknowledgments
- 0. Introduction
- 0. Part I
- 1. The\Joints and Rheumatoid Arthritis
- 2. The\Course and Prognosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis
- 3. Diagnosing Rheumatoid Arthritis: Why So Many Tests?
- 4. Outside the Joints
- 0. Part II
- 5. Lifestyle and Coping Strategies
- 6. Coping with Pain and Fatigue
- 7. Coping with Emotions
- 0. Part III
- 8. Protecting Your Joints
- 9. Exercise and Rheumatoid Arthritis
- 10. Specific Exercises
- 0. Part IV
- 11. Medications Past, Present, Future
- 12. Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)
- 13. Conventional Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs (cDMARDs)
- 14. Biotherapies
- 15. Targeted Synthetic DMARDs
- 16. Corticosteroids
- 0. Part V
- 17. Alternative and Complementary Therapies
- 18. Nutrition
- 19. Surgery for Rheumatoid Arthritis
- 0. Part VI
- 20. Disability Benefits, Insurance, and Other Financial Matters
- 21. Other Concerns
- 0. Closing Thoughts
- 0. Glossary
- 0. Bibliography
- 0. Index