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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Silver is medical director of the Spaulding-Framingham Outpatient Center and heads the Spaulding Polio Center. As the granddaughter of a polio survivor, she skillfully correlates her grandfather's medical difficulties with problems she commonly encounters in treating polio survivors, adding an empathetic and compassionate tone to her solid medical text. She first defines and describes post-polio syndrome (PPS) and follows this with chapters on finding expert medical care, controversies over diagnosis and treatment, conserving energy, preventing falls and further disability, sex and intimacy, and the emotional and psychological aspects of coping with PPS. Her chapters are brief (averaging six pages), but they provide practical explanations and suggestions. They also continually emphasize the need for personalized evaluation by health professionals with experience in treating polio survivors. Aside from differences in citing medical studies and references, Silver's book is quite similar in scope and content to Managing Post-Polio: A Guide to Living Well with Post-Polio Syndrome (LJ 10/1/98), edited by Lauro Halstead. Silver, in fact, covers many of the same topics and cites several of the authors who contributed to Halstead's book (she herself was one of the contributors). It is unlikely that most collections need both books, recommending this primarily where Halstead's book is not available. Ximena Chrisagis, Fordham Health Sciences Lib., Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Silver first learned about polio because several family members contracted it in the epidemics of the 1930s and 1940s. Her subsequent clinical and research experience as a physician has benefited many polio patients when they later acquired post-polio syndrome (PPS). A major problem with any syndrome is that there is usually no specific test that will identify it unequivocally. Some confusion enters the picture for PPS patients, since not all of them recall having had paralytic polio; indeed, in some cases neither doctor or patient was aware that the latter's disease was polio. Silver describes PPS, shows how it is diagnosed, discusses various treatments for it, and stresses that choosing an experienced and open-minded physician is vital to good treatment. Citing many case histories to make her points, she tackles various controversies and offers much practical advice about protecting and strengthening parts of the body, overcoming pain, and coping with fatigue, cold tolerance, and depression. William Beatty
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Silver is medical director of the Spaulding-Framingham Outpatient Center and heads the Spaulding Polio Center. As the granddaughter of a polio survivor, she skillfully correlates her grandfather's medical difficulties with problems she commonly encounters in treating polio survivors, adding an empathetic and compassionate tone to her solid medical text. She first defines and describes post-polio syndrome (PPS) and follows this with chapters on finding expert medical care, controversies over diagnosis and treatment, conserving energy, preventing falls and further disability, sex and intimacy, and the emotional and psychological aspects of coping with PPS. Her chapters are brief (averaging six pages), but they provide practical explanations and suggestions. They also continually emphasize the need for personalized evaluation by health professionals with experience in treating polio survivors. Aside from differences in citing medical studies and references, Silver's book is quite similar in scope and content to Managing Post-Polio: A Guide to Living Well with Post-Polio Syndrome (LJ 10/1/98), edited by Lauro Halstead. Silver, in fact, covers many of the same topics and cites several of the authors who contributed to Halstead's book (she herself was one of the contributors). It is unlikely that most collections need both books, recommending this primarily where Halstead's book is not available. Ximena Chrisagis, Fordham Health Sciences Lib., Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Silver first learned about polio because several family members contracted it in the epidemics of the 1930s and 1940s. Her subsequent clinical and research experience as a physician has benefited many polio patients when they later acquired post-polio syndrome (PPS). A major problem with any syndrome is that there is usually no specific test that will identify it unequivocally. Some confusion enters the picture for PPS patients, since not all of them recall having had paralytic polio; indeed, in some cases neither doctor or patient was aware that the latter's disease was polio. Silver describes PPS, shows how it is diagnosed, discusses various treatments for it, and stresses that choosing an experienced and open-minded physician is vital to good treatment. Citing many case histories to make her points, she tackles various controversies and offers much practical advice about protecting and strengthening parts of the body, overcoming pain, and coping with fatigue, cold tolerance, and depression. William Beatty
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
See all Editorial Reviews
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