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Medical etiology, assessment, and treatment of chronic fatigue and malaise : clinical differentiation and intervention / Roberto Patarca-Montero.
Holman Biotech Commons RB150.F37 P383 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Patarca-Montero, Roberto.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fatigue--Etiology.
- Fatigue.
- Fatigue--Diagnosis.
- Fatigue--Treatment.
- Fatigue--diagnosis.
- Chronic Disease.
- Diagnosis, Differential.
- Fatigue--etiology.
- Fatigue--therapy.
- Diagnosis.
- Medical Subjects:
- Fatigue--diagnosis.
- Chronic Disease.
- Diagnosis, Differential.
- Fatigue--etiology.
- Fatigue--therapy.
- Physical Description:
- 655 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Binghamton, NY : Haworth Medical Press, [2004]
- Contents:
- Chronic fatigue: definition and history
- Definition of chronic fatigue
- History of chronic fatiguing illnesses
- Definition of chronic fatigue syndrome and cancer-related fatigue
- Factors that influence the diagnosis and treatment of fatigue and chronic fatiguing illnesses
- Measurement of fatigue perception and severity
- Relevance of fatigue to other symptoms, and to diagnosis, predisposition, and treatment of illnesses such as cancer
- Relevance of fatigue to symptom distress and quality of life
- Relevance of fatigue in the diagnosis of other diseases such as cancer
- Relevance of fatigue and chronic fatiguing illnesses in predisposition to diseases such as cancer
- Relevance of fatigue in the treatment of other disease such as cancer
- Possible causative, predisposing, and perpetuating factors of chronic fatiguing illnesses
- Body defense factors (immunological factors)
- Endocrine factors
- Neurological factors
- Psychological and psychiatric factors
- Hematological factors
- Musculoskeletal factors
- Nutritional factors
- Treatment of chronic fatiguing illnesses
- Graded exercise
- Graded activity (energy management) therapy
- Sleep therapy
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy
- Nutritional therapy
- Pharmacological therapy
- Complementary and alternative therapy
- Immunotherapy
- Antimicrobial therapies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-612) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0789021951
- 078902196X
- OCLC:
- 53224852
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