Living Abled and Healthy: Your Guide to Injury and Illness Recovery

Living Abled and Healthy: Your Guide to Injury and Illness Recovery offers us help for some of the most difficult times of our lives--when we or someone we love are injured or ill and doing our best to recover as fully as possible. In an easy-to-read presentation, Living Abled and Healthy provides insights, knowledge, and resources for dealing with our most challenging medical, legal, insurance, disability, and financial issues.


We all hate being hurt or sick. Sometimes the questions, people, and systems we face make our lives really difficult. Life should not have to be this way. But, today, since it is, Living Abled and Healthy helps us to take charge during injury or illness rather than allowing others to take charge of us. Maneuvering through medical and legal systems may not be easy and the answers are not always clear. This book, in conjunction with web-based tools accessible with the book, helps provide us with the knowledge and resources we need.

Christopher R. Brigham, MD, the President of Brigham and Associates, Inc., is committed to working with others in the application of evidence-based medicine and best practices to promote function and avoid needless disability. He received his MD from Washington University School of Medicine and is board-certified in occupational medicine. He is the Editor of the AMA Guides Newsletter, has published over two hundred and fifty peer-reviewed articles, and edited and co-authored several previous books including the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Sixth Edition. He is passionate about creating change that will empower individuals to live joyful, productive lives. He lives in Kailua, Hawaii, with his wife.