Be Your Best Advocate

Manage your health care treatment and learn how to take care of yourself living with an autoimmune disease. Here is a reference workbook for hand, face, body and skin care with maintenance techniques for mobility. You will use this workbook over and over again.

You will learn:

  • The different types of Scleroderma and what you can do to help yourself deal with possible outcomes from your illness
  • To identify changes in your health status and ways to document for physician and therapy visits
  • How to measure your hands’ maximum stretch and incorporate daily stretching exercises to maintain function
  • Exercises that can help you sustain essential wrist flexure movements
  • Facial muscular stretches
  • To manage your Raynaud’s and identify possible aids to help minimize an episode
  • Skin care treatments for dryness, tightness, and ulcer prevention and care
  • Stress reducers and how to embody them in your daily schedule

    • “An empowering book for those with Scleroderma, Raynaud’s or even almost any chronic disease. Helps everyone to be their own advocate.”
    - Deborah Stoeckel RNBC, MSCN, MSN - Multiple Sclerosis Nurse Educator
    “A great book to aid in understanding Scleroderma and Raynaud's and their effects on the body. This workbook has excellent exercises to help control and/or prevent changes in mobility throughout the body.”
    - Mary C. Bassman OTR, CHT - Orthopedic Care Hand Center
    “Jan Gnall wrote a comprehensive manual for patients with scleroderma, who seek physical exercises to improve their joints and optimize their independence. Let her help you deal with scleroderma.”
    - Nicholas A. Cannarozzi, M.D., F.A.C.P.