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Title: Back to school: what's in your students' backpacks?(TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY
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Title: Older nurses face the challenges of tertiary study: a group of RGONs, most in their fifties, went back to school for a year. Here three share their journey to comprehensive registration.(education)
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Title: SNA releases Back to School Nutrition Trends Report: results show what schools are doing to increase healthy options for kids.(Special Report)(School Nutrition Association)(Report)
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Title: Circusworks, a special back-to-school gift to primary school teachers and homeschoolers. (Notice).(Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey)
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Title: CIRCUSWORKS: a special back-to-school web site for primary school teachers and homeschoolers. (Notices).
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As HIV spreads across the developing countries of the world, a second epidemic is never far behind. Tuberculosis has become the principal emerging infection and cause of death in AIDS patients. This report summarizes the current state of tuberculosis research and control and aims to: describe the global burden of tuberculosis and predict likely trends over the next decade with special attention to the HIV epidemic; identify and prioritize major research issues; and address specific questions relating to: diagnosis and clinical management; immunology and vaccinations; chemoprophylaxis; drug therapy and control strategies; and resource allocation. ... Read more

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Title: Looking forward by going back: a school counselor educator's return to school counseling.(PERSPECTIVE FROM THE FIELD)
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For $0.99, you can enjoy a physical therapy session right on your Kindle! Learn how to prevent and treat your back pain with simple exercises and great tips that can save your back! Written by a licensed physical therapist. Prevent back surgeries and save your back, it's not too late. Back pain is highly debilitating and almost everyone is prone to hurting their backs, even from a simple bend and snap.


EXCERPT: A majority of patients I see, as a physical therapist, suffer from back pain, specifically lower back pain. Along with back pain, my patients also have neck pain. Rarely is the pain in the middle back, the strong thoracic area where the spinal discs do not slip (disc herniation). Disc herniations occur mainly in the cervical spine (neck), and the lumbar spine (lower back.) Herniations lead to pain and dysfunction since the slipped discs press on nerves. When this happens, in the neck, the arms can become weak, numb, or tingle. When this happens in the back, the same goes for the legs. Weakness, numbness, tingling.
Disc herniations are quite problematic. Some people require surgery, and those who are in physical therapy can need at least three to six months to fully recover.
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Take back your health, your fitness, and your life

This authoritative and comprehensive guide, written by a Harvard doctor who has struggled with back pain himself, will help you find the real cause of your problem--and the smartest way to treat it.This simple step-by-step program will show you how to:

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• Avoid surgery, prevent reinjury, and strengthen your back for life

Dr. Katz also gives you the most up-to-date information on chiropractic care, new pain medications, alternative physical therapies, and back surgery.

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Heal Your Aching Back Book
Excellent book written in common sense and understandable language. Reassuring to know that just a small percentage of back problems are terribly serious, and that the majority can be helped and avoided by doing some easy exercises. Was a real help and would recommend it to anyone.

Good overview
I found it informative, a good general overview written for a wide audience. It inspired changes in my own search for treatment so I would take that as success.

Very Informative Book!
This book has greatly helped me understand that problems with my back. It offers different solutions and helps with the meaning of words my doctor uses.

Can-do guide to curing your backache
Chances are excellent that someone close to you suffers back pain. Few people manage to avoid completely the pain of wrenched, twisted, strained or pulled back muscles. Most of the time, back injuries are minor and the pain eventually dissipates. But millions of people suffer relentless, agonizing back pain that prevents them from living normal lives. They go from specialist to specialist, frustrated by different diagnoses and unable to escape the pain. Back in 1984, Harvard University's Dr. Jeffrey Katz realized through his own experiences with back pain that the medical profession knew little about how to treat it. He decided to specialize in musculoskeletal problems and to dedicate his career to helping those who suffer back pain. Katz has done all the heavy lifting for his readers. His book is easy to understand and helpful, with clear illustrations and charts. We highly recommend it to those who already suffer from back pain and want a head start at the doctor's office.

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There are some things people don’t get over easily — pain from the past is one of them. Trauma changes people: It changes values, priorities, worldviews, and most of all…it changes how we relate to others. Painful, life-threatening experiences take people beyond the normal day-to-day life, leaving them stuck behind defensive walls that keep them from re-entering the world they have always known as “home”. So how does it happen? How do we lose the loving closeness with those around us? And better yet, how do we re-gain what pain has robbed us of? “Down Range” is not only a book explaining war trauma — it is required reading for anyone seriously interested about how to make healthy transitions from war to peace. Bridget C. Cantrell, Ph.D. and Vietnam veteran, Chuck Dean have joined forces to present this vital information and resource manual for both returning troops and their loved ones. Here you will find answers, explanations, and insights as to why so many combat veterans suffer from flashbacks, depression, fits of rage, nightmares, anxiety, emotional numbing, and other troubling aspects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). ... Read more

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Down Range From Iraq and Back
By far this book should be in the hands of every Veteran including WWII vets.This book has provided significant insight to the emotional toll the war takes on those who serve. I served in Vietnam when I was 18 years old in 1970. We tried to leave Vietnam in Vietnam but it just wasn't possible.

Iraq guy
The bible for help with PTSD and recovery.I used it daily during my rehab at Madagen Army Hospital.

The pain does not go away. You just learn to live with it.
This book was written by a female clinical psychologist, a trauma specialist in therapeutic counseling for war veterans and their families, and a male Vietnam War veteran, for combat troops returning home from deployment. It is an important book which tries to take the stigma out of seeking help for mental health services. Chapter Four Some Wounds Are Not Visible makes the important point "The emotional and psychological stress of war does not go away by leaving it unattended.The wounds of war do not go away with time or just by leaving it alone. They have to be addressed and you cannot do it alone. If you were wounded physically during combat you would allow a medic to attend to the wound. This is no different." As oftentimes returning veterans experiencing emotional problems may be discouraged by their peers for even considering seeking help normalizing this process cannot be overemphasized.

After describing what posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is, the book details its symptoms including intrusive thoughts and flashbacks, isolation and avoidance, emotional numbing, depression, anger, substance and alcohol abuse, guilt, suicidal thoughts and feelings, anxiety and nervousness and emotional constriction. It makes the important point that PTSD is NOT a mental illness but a "normal reaction to extreme stress."It occurs when a person has experienced, witnessed or has been confronted with traumatic death or physical injury to themselves or others.

Chapter 5 First Aid for PTSD stresses the importance of not battling nightmares, anxious feelings, unexplained anger, depression or other PTSD symptoms alone.The authors recommend talking it out, writing it out, physical activity, avoiding self medication and learning to relax as helpful approaches to managing negative str4ss.

Myself a veteran of the Navy Hospital Corps and a social worker who has worked with returning combat veterans, I would very much recommend this book to every servicemember who has returned from a war. In fact I wish I could have been able to give a copy of this book to every returning combat vet I came into contact with. I am sure it would have been of great help to many of them.

As much a help for the loved ones as for the victim.
My son gave me this book to read several months after his return from a fourth deployment to Iraq. Worried that I was expecting him to "get over it" and return to being the person he was before those deployments, he knew the book would give me a clear understanding of what the disorder is about and what are reasonable expectations for recovery. Best of all, it gives hope that with the right kind of treatment, a victim can resume a well-adjusted life, though forever changed.

Nevertheless, I did not give "Down Range" five stars for two reasons. I found it a bit repetitive--though one can skim over those parts. More importantly, the referrals at the back of the book listing military organizations that can help, raise false hope. I found that military mental health care, for active-duty or veteran, while improving, is still woefully inadequate and sometimes downright disinterested. My son has the means to go for private therapy but I am sad to think of those who don't.

Beware of Lables
I won't repeat here what I wrote about a returning warrior's outlook in my review of "War and the Soul."
Those who care should develop as much understanding as possible from a variety of sources, and this book is a good source.

"Down Range" is full of direct and practical advice (as opposed to philosophical and/or theoretical,) and is based on first-hand experience.

However, there is one common and potentially dangerous oversight that applies to many authors and healers - that is, the tattoo-type consequence of clinical labels.
A clinical label may be easy to get, but almost impossible to get rid of.
(See "Making Us Crazy," by Kutchins/Kirk.)

War Veterans who seek or claim a formal PTSD diagnosis as a result their war deployments, whether through the VA or through any other formal mental health-care mechanism, will be denied the Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Although the authors point out that PTSD is not a mental disorder, (i.e. it is a normal reaction to abnormal circumstances,) the formal label of PTSD will pigeonhole a Veteran as a "mental defective" - one of the labels used to deny an individual the Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

I can hardly think of a better way to effectively disarm an entire generation than to use formal, however subjective, mental health-care labeling nomenclature along with tempting disability benefits to deny returning Veterans their Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

The Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano has already attempted to marginalize our brave returning Veterans by labeling them as potential "Right Wing Extremists."

Veterans should avoid formal labels if at all possible.
You should not allow anyone to tempt you into trading your God-Given Right to Keep and Bear Arms for the `Thirty Pieces of Silver' of disability benefits!

If you are experiencing difficulties' you should at least first consider seeking support through informal channels such as Spiritual advisors and informal Fellowships such as 12 Step programs.

You can even start your own 12 Step Fellowship the way the Founders of AA and NA did - adopting the same Steps and Traditions.
These organizations are widespread and seem very successful.

As long as such Fellowships and support groups remain Anonymous and informal like the Fellowships of AA and NA, Veterans seeking support and help will be able to create their own informal treatment methodology and growing Chapters, Groups and memberships that do not jeopardize their Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms.

Churches and organizations, and even the AA and NA Fellowships themselves can provide support and guidance.

But whatever you do, if you want to protect your Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms, you should avoid being ascribed the formal label of PTSD.

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Title: Back to old roots with a new facility: CAMH's new CEO has a two-fold vision for the cutting-edge research and treatment facility.(MOVER)(Centre for Addiction and Mental Health )
Author: Lindsay Barba
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Title: Recovery high schools: these schools provide a safe haven for teenagers to stay clean and get back on track.(AT RISK)
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Title: School backpacks do not appear to be behind new-onset, chronic back pain. (Alternatives Probably Unneeded).(Brief Article)
Author: Deeanna Franklin
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Title: Heavy school backpacks may be too much for children to shoulder. (In The News ...).
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Low back pain is a common presentation of patients to the Internal Medicine clinic, Emergency Department, and other types of clinics. In preparation for the USMLE Step 1, USMLE Step 2 CK, USMLE Step 2 CS, and USMLE Step 3, medical students need to know the differential diagnosis, history and physical, assessment, and treatmentfor this common chief complaint. The Medical Student Coach series is here to help you tackle this.

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Title: For most people, college is a waste of time.(Case Study)(Reprint)(Essay)
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