Ankylosing Spondylitis: The Facts (Oxford Medical Publications) [Paperback]

Muhammad Asim Khan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0192632825 | ISBN-13: 978-0192632821 | Publication Date: August 15, 2002

Ankylosing spondilitis is a chronic form of arthritis known to affect around 1 in 200 people (over 1 million sufferers in the USA alone). No cure has yet been found for the disease, however, early diagnosis and proper medical management can be important in reducing the risk of disability and deformity. Ankylosing spondilitis: the facts is the first mass market book to be published on this important disease. It provides clear and accessible information on treatment, diagnosis, genetic counselling, and daily life with this illness. Professor Khan is one of the leading experts in the world on AS, while also suffering from it. This combination of scientific knowledge and personal experience of a debilitating disorder results in a unique book which will prove invaluable for sufferers wishing to know more about their condition, and those that share their lives.

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Ankylosing spondilitis is a chronic form of arthritis known to affect around 1 in 200 people (over 1 million sufferers in the USA alone). No cure has yet been found for the disease, however, early diagnosis and proper medical management can be important in reducing the risk of disability and deformity. Ankylosing spondilitis: the fact is the first mass market book to be published on this important disease. It provides clear and accessible information on treatment, diagnosis, genetic counselling, and daily life with this illness. Professor Khan is one of the leading experts in the world on AS, while also suffering from it. This combination of scientific knowledge and personal experience of a debilitating disorder results in a unique book which will prove invaluable for sufferers wishing to know more about their condition, and those that share their lives.

About the Author

Muhammad Khan is a Professor of Medicine, Case Western University, Ohio USA.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (August 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0192632825
• ISBN-13: 978-0192632821
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #106,707 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ankylosing Spondylitis explained, February 10, 2008

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Catherine Taylor "Catherine Taylor" (Overland Park, KS) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ankylosing Spondylitis: The Facts (Oxford Medical Publications) (Paperback)

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.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It really is the facts about AS, August 27, 2005

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This review is from: Ankylosing Spondylitis: The Facts (Oxford Medical Publications) (Paperback)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good quick read but discounts alternative treatments, April 22, 2011

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This review is from: Ankylosing Spondylitis: The Facts (Oxford Medical Publications) (Paperback)

This is a good book to add to your research while waiting the four months it takes to get to see a rheumatologist. And at just 140 pages you might just read it in the waiting room.

It is very straight forward, albeit dry reading. It covers exercises, sleeping postures, case histories, alternative treatments, and medications from NSAIDs to TNF blockers like Embrel.

This is written by a medical doctor so naturally all alternative treatments are dismissed as having no value whatsoever.

Regarding chiropractic care, the author states that AS patients should "avoid manipulation" because these treatments have "sometimes inadvertently led to spinal fractures".

The low starch diet is discussed and is "not recommended" because it has not been "scientifically evaluated". Of course it hasn't been evaluated, and it never will be because there's no money to be made by large corporations.

Later he admits that "AS may be triggered by gut infection with Klebsiella bacteria". Given this statement I thought the low starch diet (which restricts Klebsiella) should have been given more consideration.

Despite the dishing of all alternative treatments, this book is a good resource.