Questions and Answers on Caring for the Most Common Chronic Illnesses

Many chronic illnesses are complicated and prolonged, causing patients great suffering. In our clinical practice, we often encounter chronic illness patients whose conditions repeatedly fail to improve, or even worsen, because they have not received proper recuperative care. To spread knowledge about the prevention and treatment of chronic illnesses, we consulted a large body of literature and drew on our own clinical experience to write this book, Questions and Answers on Recuperative Care for the Most Common Chronic Illnesses. We hope it will help people living with chronic illnesses in their recuperation.

While preparing this book, we sought feedback from a number of patients and asked Qu Lei, chief physician and council member of the China Association of Rehabilitation Medicine at Hebei Provincial Hospital, and Zhou Enhong, chief physician and vice principal of Cangzhou Health School, to review the manuscript and offer guidance. We take this opportunity to express our gratitude.

Given the limitations of our knowledge, errors in the book are inevitable. We sincerely welcome readers' corrections.

The editors