Table of Contents
1. Patient Assessments, Laboratory Interpretation, Clinical Concepts, Patient Management, Practice Management and Risk Reduction: This chapter introduces/reviews/updates patient assessments, laboratory interpretation, musculoskeletal emergencies, healthcare paradigms; the common and important conditions hemochromatosis and hypothyroidism are also included in this chapter since these need to be considered on a frequent basis in clinical practice 1 2. Wellness Promotion&Re-Establishing the Foundation for Health: Reviewed here are diet, lifestyle, psychosocial health, and-given the pervasiveness of persistent organic pollutants and their increasingly recognized clinical importance-an introduction to environmental medicine...187 3. Basic Concepts and Therapeutics in (Nondrug) Musculoskeletal Care and Integrative Pain Management: Nonpharmacologic management of musculoskeletal problems is preferred over pharmacologic (e.g., NSAID, Coxib, steroid, opioid) management because of the collateral benefits, safety, and cost-effectiveness associated with manual, dietary, botanical, and nutritional treatments. A brief discussion of the current crisis in musculoskeletal medicine is provided for contextualization and emphasis of the importance of expanding clinicians' knowledge of effective nondrug treatments...243 4. The Major Modifiable Factors in Sustained Inflammation: Major components of the "Functional Inflammology Protocol" are reviewed here, from concepts and molecular biology to an emphasis on practical clinical applications...303 4.1) Food&Basic Nutrition...307, 4.2) Infections: Dysbiosis / Viral...396 / 540, 4.3) Nutritional Immunomodulation...609, 4.4) Dysmetabolism, Mitochondrial Dysfunction, ERS/UPR, mTOR...622, 4.5) Special Considerations: Sleep, Sociopsychology, Stress, Surgery...674, 4.6) Endocrine Imbalances...688, 4.7) Xenobiotic Immunotoxicity...699.
