Helpful advice and validation for those suffering from a common yet invisible injury.
A guide to recovering from whiplash injuries.
Drummond (Combat Headaches, 2016, etc.) suffered no outward injuries and seemed to walk away unscathed from a fender bender. But within hours, her “neck and mid-back started to seize up.” Soon, “severe, immobilizing pain” rendered her nearly immobile. As a chiropractor, she knew immediately that she was suffering from whiplash, having treated many patients with similar injuries. So she went straight to work healing herself with a range of therapies, including (but not limited to) yoga, hypnosis, massage, chiropractic adjustments, and time in a flotation pod. Drummond chronicles her own recovery in fairly exhaustive detail (“I took another Aleve at noon,” and so on) while also discussing the specific treatments she explored. The guide explains how whiplash occurs and why this much-mocked injury can be so painful. Numerous illustrations provide useful context. Anyone who is questioning whether a minor accident can really lead to months of incapacitating pain or who is having trouble finding a sympathetic health care practitioner will find Drummond’s book reassuring. Unsurprisingly, her bias is strongly in favor of alternative medicine. She makes a case for exploring nontraditional treatments and avoiding painkillers and other drugs, but at times, her advice veers toward the patronizing. Not all will be as inclined to scorn conventional medicine; for those readers, more advice on how to integrate the alternative therapies she advocates with treatments that might be prescribed by an M.D. would be welcome. Nonetheless, Drummond provides a service by dispelling some of the myths and misconceptions surrounding a commonly misunderstood condition. Few who read this book will doubt that “whiplash is real and the pain can be severe enough to be debilitating.”
Helpful advice and validation for those suffering from a common yet invisible injury.Pub Date: N/A
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 302
Publisher: Blooming Ink Publishing
Review Posted Online: Dec. 20, 2016
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
Well-told and admonitory.
Young-rags-to-mature-riches memoir by broker and motivational speaker Gardner.
Born and raised in the Milwaukee ghetto, the author pulled himself up from considerable disadvantage. He was fatherless, and his adored mother wasn’t always around; once, as a child, he spied her at a family funeral accompanied by a prison guard. When beautiful, evanescent Moms was there, Chris also had to deal with Freddie “I ain’t your goddamn daddy!” Triplett, one of the meanest stepfathers in recent literature. Chris did “the dozens” with the homies, boosted a bit and in the course of youthful adventure was raped. His heroes were Miles Davis, James Brown and Muhammad Ali. Meanwhile, at the behest of Moms, he developed a fondness for reading. He joined the Navy and became a medic (preparing badass Marines for proctology), and a proficient lab technician. Moving up in San Francisco, married and then divorced, he sold medical supplies. He was recruited as a trainee at Dean Witter just around the time he became a homeless single father. All his belongings in a shopping cart, Gardner sometimes slept with his young son at the office (apparently undiscovered by the night cleaning crew). The two also frequently bedded down in a public restroom. After Gardner’s talents were finally appreciated by the firm of Bear Stearns, his American Dream became real. He got the cool duds, hot car and fine ladies so coveted from afar back in the day. He even had a meeting with Nelson Mandela. Through it all, he remained a prideful parent. His own no-daddy blues are gone now.
Well-told and admonitory.Pub Date: June 1, 2006
ISBN: 0-06-074486-3
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Amistad/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 2006
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