Introduction; PART I: MY CHILD COMPLAINS OF PAIN; PART II: THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES AND RELATED CONDITIONS; PART III: LIVING WITH A CHILD WHO HAS A CHRONIC CONDITION; Appendix: Resources; Index
Summary
For a child with arthritis or a related condition, lack of knowledge on the part of the parents is one of the biggest obstacles to recovery. Parents do not always know how to interpret the complaints voiced by their children and this is compounded by the inexperience of physicians, who rarely treat children with these ailments. In this marvelously down-to-earth guide, Dr. Thomas Lehman--the head of one of the leading pediatric rheumatology programs in the world--offers a gold mine of expert advice that is invaluable both for parents whose children have rheumatic disorders and for parents of ch
