This important book covers every aspect of living with ALS, from clinical features of the disease to an overview of symptom management to understanding its diagnosis. Major sections deal with overseeing medical care and rehabilitation, living with ALS, the disease’s advanced phase, end-of-life issues, and resources. Extensively revised and rewritten, this edition contains new chapters on the latest approaches to treating ALS symptoms, the use of noninvasive ventilators, multidisciplinary team care, new guidelines being developed by the American Academy of Neurology for patients with ALS, the use of riluzole (Rilutek), and more.

:: ERIC IS WINNING !!: Beating a Terminal Illness with Nutrition, Avoiding Toxins and Common Sense
:: I Remember Running: The Year I Got Everything I Ever Wanted-and ALS
:: If They Could Only Hear Me: A collection of personal stories about ALS and the families that have been affected.
:: I Choose to Live: A Journey Through Life with ALS
:: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (American Academy of Neurology)

- Nervous System - Internal Medicine - Neurology