Healing Stories Network

The Reading Room

Honest, first-person companions to the conditions, treatments, and choices explored across our library.

A guide to our Orthopedic & Joint Health shelf — eighteen anthologies of first-person testimony, from knee and hip replacem...

That stabbing heel pain with the first steps of the morning. What plantar fasciitis is, why it lingers, and the patient, unglam...

Numb, tingling hands that wake you at night. What carpal tunnel syndrome is, why it happens, and the range of treatments from s...

Shoulder pain that makes reaching and sleeping miserable. What the rotator cuff is, how injuries are treated, and what surgery ...

One of the most successful operations in modern medicine. What hip replacement is really like, from the decision through surger...

The wear-and-tear arthritis that becomes more common with age. What osteoarthritis is really like, and why movement, not rest, ...

Often silent until a fracture, osteoporosis is more manageable than many realise. What weakens bone, what builds it, and what p...