Informative Web Sites
- American Holistic Health Association
The AHHA is an excellent organization for promoting holistic health. Every illness originates from a constellation of factors, never just one organ. They provide great tips on living well and recovering from illness.
- CDC: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
This site from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has numerous fact sheets about a variety of sexually transmitted diseases.
- Lance Armstrong Foundation
This is an excellent Web site for patients with any type of cancer, including testicular. One of the greatest features is the Cancer Profiler Tool, that allows you to enter the details of your condition and then gives you information on treatment options.
- MedlinePlus
This Web site, provided by the National Institutes of Health, contains health topics, information on drugs and supplements, a medical encyclopedia, and a medical dictionary.
- Mind-Body Medicine
This government site provides an excellent description of mind-body medicine and the research that supports its use.
- Patient Decision Aids
For many conditions, there are no right or wrong answers for treatment choices. Decision aids are excellent articles to help with these decisions. A list of several available decision aids is on this website.
- Rethinking Health
A great video introducing concepts of the underlying issues with health and disease.
- University of Minnesota – Create a Healthy Lifestyle
This interactive Website, created by the Center for Spirituality & Healing at the Unviersity of Minnesota, provides tools for identifying problem areas in your life and setting goals to resolve them.
- UrologyChannel
This is a patient education Web site containing articles on numerous urologic conditions and procedures.
- Women’s Health Foundation
This great Web site has excellent information on the pelvic floor and how to get and keep it healthy. They also sell an exercise DVD for strengthening the pelvic floor.
- You Can Heal Your Life
As a urologist, I treat the physical manifestations of illness. However, emotions and the mind play a strong role. Getting to the bottom of these issues will serve you well. Louise Hay wrote this beautiful book illustrating this.
Patient Support Groups
- Hypospadias and Epispadias Association
- Incontinence Support on Yahoo! Health Groups
This group is for adults with incontinence to discuss treatment, coping skills, and other related topics.
- Parents of Kids with Constipation
This discussion forum, on Mothering.com, is a place for parents to discuss managing constipation in their children.
- Pelvic Organ Prolapse Support Thread
This forum, on Mothering.com, discusses non-surgical means of coping with pelvic organ prolapse (such as cystocele).
- Prostate Cancer Support on Yahoo! Health Groups
This group deals with all aspects of the support required in how to live as full a life as possible, the practical ways of dealing with Prostate Cancer, how you feel about it, and its side effects, and supporting each other in a kind way.
Patient Support Organizations
- American Urological Association
This page has excellent patient education materials on a variety of conditions.
- Interstitial Cystitis Association
- Lance Armstrong Foundation
This is an excellent Web site for patients with any type of cancer, including testicular. One of the greatest features is the Cancer Profiler Tool, that allows you to enter the details of your condition and then gives you information on treatment options.
- SaveMyFertility
This organization is dedicated to providing information to men with cancer about preserving their fertility during and after treatment.
Recommended Books
- Herbs for the Urinary Tract
This book by Michael Moore is excellent. It describes lifestyle changes that help prevent UTIs, as well as herbs that can be useful.
- You Can Heal Your Life
As a urologist, I treat the physical manifestations of illness. However, emotions and the mind play a strong role. Getting to the bottom of these issues will serve you well. Louise Hay wrote this beautiful book illustrating this.
