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The “Mayo Clinic Book of Home Remedies: What To Do For The Most Common Health Problems” is a colorful book of simple solutions for a heap of health troubles that you may do at home. Many of them seem like mutual sense, but then, how mutual is sense sometimes? The book does not incorporate a bunch of medial jargon or elaborated explanations of the respective conditions. Rather, the book plainly states troubles and then provides home remedies in easy to grasp language. If you are looking for more of a medical book, this one is not for you. This book is very non-medical. Dr. Phillip Hagen and Dr. Martha Millman, both from the Mayo Clinic, are the two medical editors of the book, and their goal was to develop a simple resource that could guide health decisions, offer easy remedies to treat a heap of problems, and perchance reduce the need to visit clinics or emergency rooms. I think they succeeded and received their goal, because the book is filled with reliable, practical data on more than 120 of the most mutual medical conditions and issues affiliated to good health. And the book is very simple and easy. If you have a number of medical guides, you probably don’t need this book. There is a one page introduction, that explains these goals, and then provides a short bit on how the book is organized, which is fundamentally by topics alphabetically. It makes it very easy to find what you are looking for. Then, beneath each topic there is a short summary that may include signs and symptoms, causes, and possible outcomes. Then there are the home remedies in another section. These describe the simple activenesses you may take to support prevent, treat, or manage the condition. This could be counsel on diet and exercise, altering behavior, or supplements to support relieve signs and symptoms. Sometimes over-the-counter medications are recommended. There is likewise a little box for each entry titled “Medical Help.” These tell with regards to severe signs and sensations or changes and provide counsel on when to contact a doctor or other health care provider and what kind of treatment you might expect. Most of these boxes are just a sentence or two. There are two pages on medical furnishes for your home at the front, and the back of the book holds a few entries on emergency care such as bleeding, CPR, choking, and heart attacks. The book holds numerous nice photographs that don’t inevitably relate to the diagnosis or remedy, but make the book an beautiful and delighting book to read or look through. Overall, this is a handy practical reference book to have handy when you need it. The simple and easy to perceive counsel may save you a lot of pain and ache, as well as cash by treating mutual health difficultnesses yourself at home. This is particularly for those that don’t know much medical information, and are not looking to know much. It’s for those that just want the simple fundamental principle that they may use. |
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Healthy Back
By lmm
So much great information is packed into a nice concise well written book. The author did a great job of explaining all of the different aspects of back pain and options for self help, treatment and maintenance. It gave me the tools to better manage the situation and choose health care professionals as needed. I highly recommend this book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.A Great Resource
By Naomi M. Judd
This compact book should be read by everyone who is active in the outdoors in any way, not only those who have specific concerns about their back. It starts by laying a clear foundation of how our backs are constructed, how we move and basic knowledge of the parts that frequently give people problems. The explanations and diagrams were easy to understand for the common person. I was especially happy with the chapter that went over the mind-body connection as someone who is currently dealing with a back injury and a lot of stress.
This book was able to suggest exercises as preventative medicine as well as helpful recovery, certain techniques that can help besides going to the chiropractor and even how a certain diet can help to keep inflammation down. This book is structured in an easy way and is a great handbook for anyone who has an active lifestyle – or anyone who isn’t an invertebrate for that matter. And I especially recommend it for those that are currently suffering from back pain as it will point you in the right direction to recovery.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.Excellent current & quick back treatment overview:
By Charles J. Horowitz
I am a psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of chronic pain.I have a doctorate in psychology and have been studying back pain since 1984. This is a rare book insofar as it’s lens runs wide and deep across a controversial topic; the topic of back pain is surprisingly complex if you examine the field. If you ask “the experts” about chronic back pain, you will find almost as much of a range of opinions as you will in religion, politics and psychology! There are many well-intended, educated, and experienced clinicians who help some people, but unbeknownst to themselves, they have tunnel vision. Surgeons and chiropractors tend to stick with their theories and not be aware of others’. I happened to have lunched with 6 physicians in the last 2 weeks, some of them back pain specialists, and none of them had heard of Dr. John Sarno, author of “Mind Over Back Pain”, who Andrew Weil endorses. Sarno himself is cocksure of his psychologically-based back pain theory, for example. In interviewing people about what has helped them, I have found some who were but many who were not helped by Sarno’s method. So, it seems that clinicians, while they help some folks, are often unconsciously dogmatic and provincial.
If you ask anyone comprehensively in the know about back pain, you will find acknowledgment of the multiplicity of methods that can help people and the unpredictability of who will be helped by what. This is the viewpoint expressed in The Healthy Back Book. It gives a good, brief, wide, and deep picture of how to get help. My only criticism, if you could call it that, is of the subtitle: this book is not only for outdoorsy and active people. It is one of the best current overviews of back pain treatment out there, and has the advantage of being short and concise as well as balanced. Charles Horowitz, Ph.D.
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