This book is unique, informative, and approachable – and addresses a problem faced by one in ten (176 million) women worldwide.Dr Iris Orbuch. is a surgeon and Amy Stein,a physical therapist, the founder of Beyond Basics Physical Therapy. Together they have produced a guide for women about how to deal with their endometriosis in order to: 1) Avoid surgery (if at all possible), 2) What to do before surgery (should they absolutely need it); and how 3) To live and what to do post-surgery – so that the women afflicted by this disease, can reclaim their lives.Dr. Orbuch and Amy Stein have called upon those they call the endometriosis “warriors” – specialists in a range of practices with whom they routinely share knowledge and insights into what works for the women they care for.With the recent new guidelines issued by NICE in the UK this book is destined to become the go-to reference for the thousands of women struggling with this debilitating condition.
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Dr Iris Kerin Orbuch. Beating Endo
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword. Bojana Novakovic
Foreword. Susan Yeagley
Introduction: Beating Endometriosis
1. What Is Endo? The Disease Process of Endometriosis
2. The Goal. Regaining Quality of Life
3. Endo and the Body’s Core. Why Physical Therapy Plays an Essential Role
4. Endo and the Bladder
5. Endo and the GI Tract
6. Endo and Sex
7. Pain, Disease, and the Central Nervous System. A Multimodal Strategy for a Multidimensional Disease
8. Endo and Nutrition
9. Endo and Your Environment
10. Endo and Your State of Mind
11. Excision Surgery
12. A Special Case. Endo and Teens (but This Chapter Is Not Just for Teens!)
But that’s the point of research—to identify and, when needed, to jettison dismissive assumptions masquerading as knowledge. And the research-driven, evidence-based fact is that any woman can get endo—without regard to race, creed, color, professional pursuit, or socioeconomic status. Period. That said, Ballweg’s research does suggest that it is more likely to occur in women whose families are prone to autoimmune diseases and/or allergies.
Endo is a chronic illness, and that makes it very much a disease of our time. Up until the latter part of the last century, chronic illness was not top-of-mind when people worried about their health or the health of their families. What our grandparents and certainly our great-grandparents were concerned about was infectious disease. Back in the mid-twentieth century, polio was the scourge that led parents to deny their kids access to the public pool in the summer, and mumps, measles, rubella—the infectious, contagious diseases that could run like wildfire through a classroom or school playground—were the diseases that kept our parents and grandparents up at night. Yet now we rarely hear the words; here in the United States, thanks to the development of vaccines and the implementation of public health policies, these infectious diseases have been virtually eradicated.
