Complementary Therapies and the Management of Diabetes and Vascular Disease: A Matter of Balance (Practical Diabetes) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047001458X ISBN 13: 9780470014585

Publisher: Wiley, 2006

Synopsis

This book brings together important information about complementary therapies and how they are used in diabetes care. It addresses the benefits and risks of complementary therapies and takes an evidence-based approach. Complementary Therapies and the Management of Diabetes and Vascular Disease: A Matter of Balance provides health professionals with appropriate information about complementary therapies so they can discuss these therapies with their patients and help them make informed decisions about their diabetes care.

Managing diabetes depends on achieving life balance, not just metabolic control. This is the first book devoted exclusively to complementary therapies and diabetes, and it has several key features:

• It is an informative evidence-based text that will help health professionals understand complementary therapies commonly used by people with diabetes, their potential benefits, possible adverse events and how these could be minimised or prevented.
• It describes clinical practice guidelines for the safe combination of complementary and conventional therapies in diabetes management.
• It suggests appropriate advice to give people with diabetes and vascular disease about complementary therapies.

Written by experts in the various fields, this book makes important reading for all health professionals managing patients with diabetes and associated vascular disease, including nurses, doctors, dietitians and podiatrists.

About this title

About the Author

Professor Trish Dunning, Director Diabetes Education Services and Clinical Nurse Consultant, Diabetes Education, St. Vincent’s Health Melbourne.

From the Back Cover

People with diabetes frequently use complementary therapies to control blood glucose but also to manage symptoms associated with complications and intercurrent illness as well as in health prevention strategies. Managing diabetes depends on achieving life balance, not just metabolic control. The International Diabetes Federation chose the epitomy of balance, the Yin Yang symbol, as the World Diabetes Day logo in 2003.

Complementary therapies cover a wide range, some with a good evidence base. This book provides an overview of the most commonly used of these therapies and discusses key issues for safe use by people with diabetes and associated vascular disease. Conventional practitioners need to ask whether patients are using complementary therapies as part of an holistic assessment and consider the potential interactions with conventional medicines.

This is the first book devoted exclusively to complementary therapies and diabetes and has several key features:

• It is an informative evidence-based text that will help health professionals understand complementary therapies commonly used by people with diabetes, their potential benefits, possible adverse events and how these could be minimised or prevented.
• It describes clinical practice guidelines for the safe combination of complementary and conventional therapies in diabetes management.
• It suggests appropriate advice to give people with diabetes and vascular disease about complementary therapies.

Written by experts in the various fields, this book makes important reading for all health professionals managing patients with diabetes and associated vascular disease, including nurses, doctors, dietitians and podiatrists.

Complementary therapies cover a wide range, some with a good evidence base. This book provides an overview of the most commonly used of these therapies and discusses key issues for safe use by people with diabetes and associated vascular disease. Conventional practitioners need to ask whether patients are using complementary therapies as part of an holistic assessment and consider the potential interactions with conventional medicines.

This is the first book devoted exclusively to complementary therapies and diabetes and has several key features:

• It is an informative evidence-based text that will help health professionals understand complementary therapies commonly used by people with diabetes, their potential benefits, possible adverse events and how these could be minimised or prevented.
• It describes clinical practice guidelines for the safe combination of complementary and conventional therapies in diabetes management.
• It suggests appropriate advice to give people with diabetes and vascular disease about complementary therapies.

Written by experts in the various fields, this book makes important reading for all health professionals managing patients with diabetes and associated vascular disease, including nurses, doctors, dietitians and podiatrists.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047001458X
• ISBN 13: 9780470014585
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 420
• Editor: Dunning Trisha