Frankie Campling: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Cover: 9780199233168 | Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | Frankie Campling (u. a.) | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

This book presents a compassionate guide to this illness, providing sufferers and their families, with practical advice, based solely on scientific evidence. It is unique in being written by both a sufferer and a physician. Included in the book is a detailed guide to self-help, written from a patient's perspective, but evidence-based.

Über den Autor

Frankie Campling suffers from CFS/ME and provides telephone support for others like herself.

Professor Michael Sharpe is a Professor in Psychological Medicine at The University of Edinburgh. He runs specialist clinic services for CFS/ME and has published widely on the illness.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1 - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: its nature, diagnosis, and treatment

1: Our aims in this section

2: What should it be called and why?

3: What is chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME)?

4: How is a diagnosis of CFS/ME made?

5: What other conditions is CFS/ME linked to?

6: What do we know about CFS/ME?

7: Making sense of what we know about the causes of CFS/ME

8: What is the best treatment?

9: Some myths about CFS/ME

10: Summary

Section 2 - The idea of helping yourself

11: Introduction to self-help

12: Balancing rest and activity

13: Relaxation and calm breathing

14: Appropriate exercise

15: Improving your sleep

16: Getting the best from your food

17: Coping with pain

18: Difficulties with memory and concentration

19: A gradual increase in activity

20: What gets in the way of being sensible?

21: Improving your mood

22: Managing anxiety, panic and depression

23: Managing your thinking

24: Dealing with problems

25: Better communication

26: Managing relationships and people

27: Getting the best from today

28: Managing employment

29: Thinking about the future

30: Summary of our self-help advice

Section 3 - Special Issues

31: Thinking about therapies and therapists, both medical and complementary/alternative

32: Cognitive behaviour therapy, graded excercise therapy, and adaptive pacing therapy

33: Children and young people with CFS/ME

Appendices

1: Medical glossary

2: Keeping a diary

3: Further information

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2008
Fachbereich:	Krankheiten
Genre:	Importe , Medizin
Produktart:	Ratgeber
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	199 S.
ISBN-13:	9780199233168
ISBN-10:	0199233160
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Campling, Frankie Sharpe, Michael
Auflage:	2 Revised edition
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Oxford University Press España S.A., El Parque Empresarial San Fernando de Henares, Avendia de Castilla 2, E-28830 Madrid, product.safety@oup.com
Maße:	198 x 131 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Frankie Campling (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.07.2008
Gewicht:	0,239 kg