Be Your Best Advocate: A Workbook for Improving Your Life with Scleroderma, an Autoimmune Disease

by Jan Gnall

Manage your health care treatment and learn how to take care of yourself living with an autoimmune disease. Here is a reference workbook for hand, face, body and skin care with maintenance techniques for mobility. You will learn: the different types of scleroderma and what you can do to help yourself deal with possible outcomes from your illness, to identify changes in your health status and ways to document for physician and therapy visits, how to measure your hand's maximum stretch and incorporate daily stretching exercises to maintain function, exercises that can help you sustain essential wrist flexure movements, facial muscular stretches, to manage Raynaud's and identify possible aids to help minimize episodes, skin care treatments for dryness, digital ulcer prevention and care, stress reducers and how to embody them in your daily schedule

• Format: Hardcover-spiral
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615335721
• ISBN13: 9780615335728
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Be Your Best Advocate Publishing
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 11.0"