A Doctor's Journey Back to Health

A Doctor's Journey Back to Health

by Steven J. Sommer
A Doctor's Journey Back to Health

A Doctor's Journey Back to Health

by Steven J. Sommer

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Overview

From doctor to patient to doctor again, Dr Steven Sommer's uplifting story is told alongside the story of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). Steven's life and career was soaring with potential before it was derailed by ME/CFS. Steven and his partner, Tori, unveil the horrors of what it was like to have this disease as he shares his search for answers, a quest that culminates in a joyous turn-around.

Interwoven, is the fascinating medical research that's blowing the hat off our understanding of this oft-maligned illness. It exposes and verifies that ME/CFS is truly a biomedical disease not a psychiatric one.

Currently, close to two hundred and fifty thousand Australians and millions of people worldwide are impacted by ME/CFS. This number is likely to swell as a percentage of people with Long Covid go on to develop ME/CFS.

In the follow-up companion book, A Path Back to Life, Steven provides a management approach, he calls Micro-Rehab, that gives hope and practical guidance to those who need it.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780995434547
Publisher: Steven Sommer
Publication date: 05/08/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 218
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

Steven has worked as a GP and medical school senior lecturer at Monash and Deakin Universities, Melbourne, Australia.He was also the President of the non-profit educational organisation, the Whole Health Institute of Australasia (1993-1996). Having recovered from ME/CFS, after 11 years of debility, Steven ran a GP clinic exclusively to assist people with ME/CFS from 2007-11. In 2019 Steven was invited and joined the inaugural Medical Advisory Committee for Emerge (ME/CFS) Australia.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Dedication

Foreword       Dr Daniel Lewis (Rheumatologist)

Introduction   Dr Steven Sommer                                                                                      

Ch 1 ME/CFS circa 1989; Ch 2 A Brief History of ME/CFS; Ch 3 Diagnosis, Prevalence and Prognosis; Ch 4 My Story; Ch 5 ME/CFS Unmasked?; Ch 6 Triggers; Ch 7 Long COVID - The Growing Wave; Ch 8 My Experience/Cessation of Familiar Support (ME/CFS); Ch 9 A Day in the Life - A Carer's reflection; Ch 10, 11, 12 Science; Ch 13 Beyond GET (Graded Exercise Therapy); Ch 14 Epigenetic Switches; Ch 15 Hope Knocks on Our Door; Epilogue A Twist in the Tale                                                                                        


                                                                 

                                                                                                                                  

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