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Description of Shaking Palsy, a condition that would later be named Parkinson's disease after James Parkinson.

 

This handbook will you take you step by step through your entire trip from just thinking about travelling to your safe return home. It provides questions, helpful hints and travel tips that make it easier to follow and help you plan the right trip for you.

 

Written by two of the most well-known and respected experts in the field of Parkinson's disease. They answer everyday questions in easy-to-understand language.

 

A compassionate and practical guide to understanding and coping with the emotional and social aspects of chronic illness and disability. Through the strength of the authors' understanding, they demonstrate the power that every family can derive in the face of crisis.

 

This thoughtful collection of fourteen essays offers helpful information and useful suggestions relevant to virtually every concern voiced by patients, families and caregivers. Experts in neurology and diagnostic, treatment research, nursing, speech and communication, physical therapy, psychology, psychiatry, and support services have joined to provide one of the most comprehensive volumes.

Serves as a model for how a couple can cope with any chronic illness and continue a loving and fulfilling relationship.

This book is a description of some aspects of life lived with a chronic disease. Fundamentally it is about caring, being able to enjoy, keeping up hope and finding meaning in life.

Information about sexual practices, including nonstressful positions and alternatives to intercourse, with an emphasis on addressing the needs of both partners.

Serves as a guide to learning about the disease and its potential impact on your life. Its describes the nature of Parkinson's disease and treatments that are available for its management, as well as the results of research efforts devoted to the discovery of improved treatments.

 

Focuses entirely on the behavioral changes associated with PD that create the most stressful problems for loved ones and family members. The self-contained chapters will help you understand and cope with these issues, as well as provide guidance on ways to communicate with your healthcare team.

 

This book helps those who are living with Parkinson's disease makes healthy adjustments to profound life changes, develop expertise in self-monitoring and self-management, and become effective partners in shared decision making with family members and medical professionals.

 

This book provides a thorough review of the etiology, diagnosis, and current treatment of Parkinson's disease, with special consideration given to the effect on family dynamics and routines; including the often neglected topics of long-term care and sexual function. It also reviews the pros and cons of various alternative therapies, including nutritional supplements, massage, and traditional Chinese medicine.

 

This book offers basic knowledge of features of Parkinson's disease, providing a sound knowledge base you can use to understand your condition.

 

This book provides an explanation of Parkinson's and its symptoms, as well as the treatments available.

 

Marjan Jahanshahi & C. David Marsden. 1998.

This book is designed to fill the gap that is too often left in doctor-patient communication, with patients being given minimal information about their condition and its treatment, and the family being left to adapt alone to the long-term implications of the diagnosis.

 

Comprehensive handbook that explains everything that patients, their families and health professionals need to know about Parkinson's. Sixty percent of the book is devoted to practical and useful tips for the common problems of the disease.

This book explains in straightforward language what we know and don't know about Parkinson's, and how its various stages can be identified and treated. It offers a wealth of practical, hands-on tips for adapting homes and lifestyles to the needs of those affected.

 

Highlights all of the questions and provides answers related to Parkinson's disease. Discusses differential diagnosis, etiology, medications, medical management, management of secondary symptoms, and surgery.

 

Discusses common problem areas seen in patients with Parkinson's disease and provides you with effective treatments through data and case studies.

 

This booklet will assist you to improve communication with your doctor so that as equal partners you will make informed, educated decisions about those things which affect your health. You will learn how to ask, not to be afraid to ask, and to ask the right question at the best time.

 

Provides information for aid in daily living.

 

Using patient case studies, facts about the disease, a survey that assesses quality of life, and Biblical references, the author shows how patients at all stages of the disease can maintain their quality of life.

 

Focuses on the intimacy problems of couples when one person has Parkinson's. The information can certainly be applied to couples dealing with other physical handicaps. The author offers particular hope for those who fear their disabilities will keep them from enjoying sex.

 

Offers specific, practical, clinically sound solutions applicable to the common everyday problems family caregivers face, and shows how caregiving can be shared among the extended family, neighbors, and friends.

 

The author presents his sound-based techniques for self-healing. Discusses techniques that anyone can use, whether faced with a life-threatening disease or simply seeking relief from the stresses of daily life. The book includes twelve exercises, including breathing, meditation, and the use of pure vocal sound to resolve tension, release emotion, and spur of the healing process that can be used by anyone to improve health and quality of life.

 

The author, both a physician and PD patient, discusses topics such as how Parkinson's disease is diagnosed, drug therapy, exercise, coping, and caregiver care.

A compilation of poetry, prose, short stories and artwork all done by people with Parkinson's or people who love them. It is a collection of work that illustrates that while the body may be imprisoned by Parkinson's, the mind and spirit are free and creative.