Navigating Life with Multiple Sclerosis

by Kathleen Costello, Ben W Thrower, Barbara S Giesser

Overview

Navigating Life with Multiple Sclerosis will serve as a practical guide for meeting the challenges of this life-long disease. MS may cause a myriad of symptoms and varies greatly from person to person. The authors demystify MS and offer practical solutions and guidance based upon their extensive combined clinical and research experience. The book tackles many of the common symptoms experienced by the person with MS and looks into the future to explore where research is headed. If you are newly diagnosed or have been living with MS for years, this book is an invaluable guide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199381739
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/01/2015
Series:	Brain and Life Books
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	347,749
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Kathleen Costello, MS, ANP-BC, MSCN
Associate Vice President, Clinical Care
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
New York, NY
Nurse Practitioner
Johns Hopkins Multiple Sclerosis Center
Baltimore, MD



Ben W. Thrower, MD
Medical Director
Andrew C. Carlos Multiple Sclerosis Institute at Shepherd Center
Atlanta, GA

Barbara S. Giesser, MD
Clinical Director, UCLA Multiple Sclerosis Program
David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA

Table of Contents

1. What Is Multiple Sclerosis?
2. How Multiple Sclerosis Affects the Nerves
3. How MS Is Diagnosed
4. Managing Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms
5. Treating and Managing Multiple Sclerosis: Relapses and Disease-Modifying Therapies
6. Lifestyle Management
7. Reproductive Issues in Multiple Sclerosis
8. The Future of Multiple Sclerosis Management
9. Planning for Your Future

Editorial Reviews

"Navigating Life with MS is authored by Dr. Barbara Giesser, a highly respected neurologist who has set a high bar of comprehensive and collaborative care in MS as a professional standard. This book, whose topics range from a definition of the disease, to the diagnostic and treatment process, lifestyle issues such as reproduction and self-efficacy, also provides the reader with a look into the future. Although targeted toward the lay reader, healthcare professionals will find this a remarkable teaching tool for novices in the field as well as patients and their families. This book is a MUST for a library on multiple sclerosis and is a model for other such works on long-term chronic illnesses." —June Halper, MSN, APN-C, MSCN, FAAN, Adult Nurse Practitioner, Chief Executive Officer, Consortium of MS Centers, Hackensack, NJ; and Executive Director, International Organization of Multiple Sclerosis Nurses

"Kathy Costello, Ben Thrower, and Barbara Giesser, have produced a book for people with MS, which is about the facts, nothing but the facts. This book allows the reader to get started on the right path and navigate the current MS map to live a more fulfilling life despite the diagnosis. It is well written and will convert a non-medically trained person to one with fluency about MS. Managing MS is about disease management, symptom management, and person (psychological) management. The authors have hit on each and have explained the use of pharmacological (drug) therapies, rehabilitative therapies, and psychological, mental health therapies with a dash of practical financial management. This is an essential resource for those interested in multiple sclerosis for any reason. My hat is off to the authors!" —Randall T. Schapiro, MD, FAAN, President, The Schapiro MS Advisory Group; and Clinical Professor of Neurology (Retired), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

"This book will be equally handy to individuals with MS, to family members, and to healthcare providers as it's written with all of these groups in mind." —Everyday Health

"Navigating Life With Multiple Sclerosis is without a doubt a must have read for anyone newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. For those already diagnosed with MS the book offers a clear and concise up to date resource complete with a glossary that will most certainly result in you having a better knowledge of the state of multiple sclerosis as it is today. ... For a family with a loved one recently diagnosed with MS this is simply a MUST READ, there is just no question about it." —MS Unites

"The authors provide a succinct and easy-to-read summary of the important biomedical points in the literature... Although this topic may be upsetting for those who have minimal symptoms or are newly diagnosed, it is often not covered and is essential information. This further demonstrates the authors' dedication to providing a comprehensive guidebook to those who are living with MS and their families." —PsycCRITIQUES

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