You Can Heal Yourself: A Guide to Physical and Emotional Recovery After Injury or Illness

How to heal faster, better, and stronger during recovery from a serious illness or injury--a Harvard doctor's complete recovery plan

When people are seriously ill or injured, they receive immediate and often life-sustaining treatment. Then at some point they are usually left to their own devices to finish healing. At the time that patients are discharged from treatment or their doctors tell them, I don't have anything else I can offer you, they are often shifted into a zone where they are better than at their sickest point, but not as healthy as they once were. This zone, between illness and good health, is where rehabilitation specialists focus. Dr. Silver calls this area of medicine, where physiatrists work, The Healing Zone. This is the place where doctors are most concerned with physical and emotional healing after an injury
or illness.

Our bodies are amazing in their capacity to heal, however, people can be taught how to heal faster, better, and stronger, both physically and emotionally. You Can Heal Yourself offers the strategies needed to achieve optimal healing.

Author: Julie Silver
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 01/31/2012
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780312605803

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/2012 pg. 7
Library Journal 03/01/2012 pg. 114

About the Author

JULIE SILVER, MD is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She is an award-winning author and has edited/written more than 20 books that focus on rehabilitation medicine and physical recovery. Dr. Silver is currently on the medical staffs of several major hospitals in Massachusetts, including Brigham and Womens, Massachusetts General, Spaulding, and UMass Memorial. In addition to her clinical work as a physiatrist, Dr. Silver is the Chief Editor of Books at Harvard Health Publications and a founder of Oncology Rehab Partners.

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