Ankylosing Spondylitis: The Facts

by Muhammad Asim Khan

Book Overview

Ankylosing spondilitis is a chronic form of arthritis known to affect around 1 in 200 people(over 1 million sufferers in the USA alone). Ankylosing spondilitis: the facts is the first mass market book to be published on this important disease written by someone who is not only a leading expert on AS, but is affected by it himself. Ankylosing spondilitis is a chronic form of arthritis known to affect around 1 in 200 people (over 1 million sufferers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192632825
• ISBN13: 9780192632821
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Ankylosing Spondylitis explained

Excellent book that further explains this hereditary immune disease and the genetic HLA-B27-xx chromosone that your ancestors have handed down unknowingly. Just recently researchers have also found two other chromosones that are also linked to AS. You will find that even some Rheumatologist's will misdiagnose your disease because they either don't know enough about AS themselves or they feel the "tests" are too expensive. Therefore you may suffer in unnecessary debilitating pain until you insist upon testing. Educate yourself with the most knowledgeable doctor in this field who just so happens to have AS himself.

an excellent source of information

I found this book to be a huge amount of knowledge on the subject of AS. I found information that led me to new understandings of the puzzling dissorder and I learned many things that I did not know.

It really is the facts about AS

If you're looking for an AS book with the facts then this is the one. You will find the explanations clear. Hopefully if you are an AS sufferer this will give you some relief. It explains that it might not be as bad for you as you first thought. It details exercises that will make real difference for most sufferers. You should get this book if you suffer from AS or want to know more about it.