Master The Art of Swimming or Success with Heart Failure

Master The Art of Swimming

Author: Steven Shaw

Swimming improves flexibility, tones the body, helps boost self-esteem, and produces a sense of well-being. Here, enhanced with the unique insights of the Alexander Technique, is a complete guide to swimming for health, fitness, and emotional relaxation. Breaking down each stroke into a series of therapeutic movements—which can be practiced alone or with a partner, in water or on dry land—it provides the building blocks for a better, more healthful swimming experience. Instead of performing physical actions in an automatic way, the reader learns to develop body awareness, and soon begins to move more freely, openly, and gracefully. Covering all the most popular strokes, this approach allows anyone to swim with maximum efficiency and minimum strain.

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Success with Heart Failure: Help and Hope for Those with Congestive Heart Failure

Author: Marc Silver

This new and improved edition of Success With Heart Failure gives readers enlightened and compassionate insight and important tips for treating this prevalent disease, including information on:--The similarities and differences between heart failure and heart attack--The role of heart transplantation to treat heart failure--State-of-the-art implantation treatments--The psychological effect of a prognosis of heart failure--The importance of a prescribed regimen of diet and exercise

8/18/03 - Nurseweek

A compassionate, positive book for patients with heart failure on the challenges of living a quality lifestyle.

Library Journal

Silver has written a compassionate, positive book for patients with heart failure on the challenges of living a quality lifestyle. He avoids technical jargon in this fairly basic explanation of what heart failure is, what can cause it, the levels of severity, and the importance of the patient's responsibility in maintaining his/her health program. Emphasizing the importance of a good doctor/patient relationship, Silver outlines what the patient can do to control his/her health through attitude, diet, medication, education, and exercise. He also discusses conventional and experimental therapies and in several chapters addresses specifically families and young heart patients. This is a very encouraging book, giving basic advice and positive motivation. An excellent choice for health collections.-Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans Hosp., Tampa, Fla.

What People Are Saying

Domeena C. Renshaw
Success With Heart Failure...will help any heart patient, family member, or friend to make sense of this illness. Dr. Silver's optimism is both justified and infectious. (Domeena C. Renshaw, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Loyola University Medical School)

Bernie Siegel
An excellent resource for patients and doctors dealing with heart failure. (Bernie Siegel, M.D., Author, Love, Medicine, and Miracles)