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Living with rheumatoid arthritis / Tammi L. Shlotzhauer, MD.

Summary:

"This work is a revised edition of the classic, comprehensive, and trusted guide to rheumatoid arthritis"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781421449883
ISBN: 1421449889
Physical Description: xxi, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Edition: Fourth edition.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024.
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Defining rheumatoid arthritis -- The joints and rheumatoid arthritis -- The course and prognosis of rheumatoid arthritis -- Diagnosing rheumatoid arthritis: Why so many tests? -- Outside the joints: other signs and symptoms or rheumatoid arthritis -- Lifestyle and coping strategies -- Coping with pain and fatigue -- Coping with emotions -- yours and everyone else's -- Protecting your joints -- Exercise and rheumatoid arthritis -- Specific exercises -- Medications past, present, future -- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) -- Conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (cDMARDs) -- Biotherapies: the biologics, or bDMARDs -- Targeted synthetic DMARDs -- Glucocorticoids -- Alternative and complementary therapies -- Nutrition: Diets, nutrients, and nutritional supplements -- Surgery for rheumatoid arthritis -- Disability benefits, insurance, and other financial matters, Other concerns -- Closing thoughts.