Super Healing: Maximize Your Recovery from Injury and Illness - Tapa dura

When people are seriously ill or injured, at some point they are left to their own devices to "finish" healing. As a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation, Dr. Silver has taught her patients to utilize special physical rehabilitation strategies to help them heal better, faster, and stronger - in other words, to super-heal. That gift of super-healing is what she now imparts to everyone who reads this book.The world marvelled that Lance Armstrong was able to recover from his grave illness to be even stronger than he was before. The ability to heal optimally is possible for all of us - if we learn how to tap into our own personal super-healing power. Dr. Silver addresses the three most important components in physical recovery - a healing diet, therapeutic exercise and proper rest. She shows you how to take these three components, which she calls the Super-Healing Synergy, and use them to facilitate healing far beyond what anyone component can do alone. Dr. Silver is a cancer survivor who took her own journey through the "healing zone," perfecting her healing techniques as she worked to speed her own recovery. At a time when the focus in popular medical literature is almost exclusively on emotional recovery from illness and trauma, this book on the physical aspects of healing fills an urgent need.

JULIE K. SILVER, MD, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, is a renowned expert in physical medicine and rehabilitation (physiatry) and is on the medical staff at Brigham and Women's, Massachusetts General, and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts. She is an award-winning writer and the author/editor of more than a dozen books, including a number of medical textbooks and the book After Cancer Treatment: Heal Faster, Better, Stronger. She is the recipient of the most prestigious honor bestowed by the American Cancer Society, The Lane Adams Quality of Life Award. She lives outside of Boston.