Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 164
•
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4422-2579-4 • Hardback • June 2014 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
978-1-5381-0750-8 • Paperback • August 2017 • $29.00 • (£19.99)
978-1-4422-2580-0 • eBook • June 2014 • $27.50 • (£19.99)
Jill Gambaro, has lived with multiple repetitive strain injuries known as a “double crush” for over 13 years. A former executive director of the Los Angeles Repetitive Strain Injury Support Group and former board member of the Cumulative Trauma Disorders Resource Network, Jill has interviewed hundreds of doctors, lawyers, physical therapists, alternative healers, injured workers, members of the workers’ compensation community, and RSI sufferers. She has met with representatives from Senators Feinstein and Boxer’s offices; wrote an article entitled “Is Work Killing Us?” for the Washington Free Press; spoke at the California state capitol during a press conference on the California Workers’ Compensation System; appeared on Which Way LA? on National Public Radio’s KCET station in Los Angeles; as well as KCAL-KCBS five o’clock and eleven o’clock news to discuss reforms in the California Workers’ Compensation system. She is a professional writer and film producer. For more information visit: www.truthaboutcarpaltunnel.com.
Introduction
Chapter 1: I Woke Up One Morning to Find My Life Had Fallen Apart
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF RSIs
Chapter 2: Why Its Important to Educate Yourself about RSIs
Chapter 3: How Can You Become Disabled Just by Sitting at a Computer?
Chapter 4: When You Don’t Get Proper Treatment, Your RSI Get Worse
Chapter 5: Ergonomics Alone Cannot Prevent RSIs
THE POLITICS OF RSIs
Chapter 6: Why the Health Care Community Disputes the Existence of RSIs
Chapter 7: How the Workers’ Compensation System Worsens RSIs
Chapter 8: The Political Battle Over
THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF RSIs
Chapter 9: The Future of RSIs
Chapter 10: Employers and RSIs
Chapter 11: Why RSIs Cost You, Even If You Don’t Have One
Chapter 12:Why Work is the Cure for RSIs
APPENDICES
Appendix A – Patient Resources
Appendix B – Parent Resources
Appendix C – Employer Resources
Jill Gambaro takes us down the RSI rabbit hole to a strange land filled with cruel insurance companies, vanishing attorneys, and domineering doctors. In this millennium, because of our excessive screen use, her personal struggle, health discoveries, and political insight should be required reading, especially for Congress.
In the end, she manages to finds friends, and some hope, for those with this insidious, misunderstood disease who are some of the hardest working workers in the world. Thank you Jill!
— Jonathan Bailin, Ph.D., Sports Medicine & Ergonomics Associates, ErgonomicsDr.com
Jill Gambaro presents her pain and stress living with carpal tunnel syndrome and frustration with not receiving correct treatment and pain relief. Gambaro documents the extent of the problem and its threatening effects. This book is a comfort to fellow sufferers who can identify with their own illness and gain hope and support. BRAVO!
— Marian Garfinkel, Ed.D., adjunct professor, Temple School of Medicine; adjunct professor, College of Health Professions and Social work, Department of Kinesiology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
As we change how we work, learn, and play, we have the potential to injure ourselves, our hands, in ways that were never conceived of. Therefore, it is imperative to read and follow Jill Gambaro's amazing advice in The Truth About Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. She adeptly outlines what we need to know, what we need to do, and how we need to protect one of our greatest assets—our hands.
— Francine R. Kaufman M.D., distinguished professor emerita, The Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles