Super Healing: The Clinically Proven Plan to Maximize Recovery from Illness or Injury

by Julie K. Silver

Book Overview

At this moment, 90 million Americans are in the process of healing from an illness or injury. Many will start out in the hospital, receiving immediate and perhaps life-sustaining treatment. Once... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594866317
• ISBN13: 9781594866319
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Highly Recommended

If you've just had major surgery or gone through cancer treatments, you probably now find yourself in the Healing Zone. Your primary goal is to heal your body as quickly and easily as possible. Super Healing can help. Dr. Silver, a physiatrist (doctor specializing in rehabilitation medicine), will help you put together your own Super Healing plan, incorporating eight healing strategies designed to maximize healing. Physical goals include getting proper exercise and not tiring your body unnecessarily with chores that drain you but don't contribute to healing. They also include getting proper nutrition, especially those foods that specifically heal whatever problem you're currently facing. Proper rest is also important, and working with your doctor to alleviate pain will help to ensure you can get at least eight hours of uninterrupted sleep each night. In addition to caring for your body, proper mental and emotional care is important. While Dr. Silver understands it's not always easy to keep a positive mental attitude when you're not feeling well, there are certain steps you can take to try not to let yourself get too down. Getting appropriate emotional needs met by the people around you can help, also. So can connecting to your spiritual needs, whatever your faith. When all of these elements are brought together into a plan, comprised of short and long term goals, healing is accelerated. Dr. Silver has used this plan with many of her patients and also for herself, as a cancer survivor. If you follow it, she assures you that you'll have an easier trip through the Healing Zone. Muse Review Mark: Highly Recommended Reviewer: Alice Berger, Muse Reviews

Super Healing is a Super Book!

Imagine you are a person whose life has been upended by illness or accident and you are struggling to return to optimum health and life quality. But you don't know where to turn for reliable scientifically grounded advice. Now imagine that a wonderful young physician specialist in rehabilitation medicine is going to sit down with you and go through a step by step process for you to reach your goals. You won't have to imagine that this physician has herself toured the path of recovery (from breast cancer) as she has already described that in her After Cancer Treatment: Heal Faster, Better, Stronger which won her the American Cancer Association's prestigious Lane Adams Quality of Life Award. Now, Dr. Silver has returned to see that the Super Healing principles she had begun to identify could be razor honed to apply generally to virtually all persons who are no longer amongst the totally well. As your personal consultant Dr. Silver takes you on a beautiful train tour of Super Healing land (which she names the Healing Zone). Using elegant, near poetic verbiage which is lay person friendly and reads easily; and which is peppered with stories and famous critical literature quotations, this is like sound motherly or sisterly advice (from a genuine expert) She crafts a method for creating and sticking with "a plan to heal" which considers the entire armamentarium of evidence based scientific medicine, to sound nutrition, proper progressive exercise, effective rest and sleep, pain control, facilitating loving human attachments, mind-body medicine and harnessing spiritual energy. Detailed "how to's" are provided. A reader will begin to experience the healing immediately as these positive words are digested and acted upon. Dr Silver has employed a dozen plus stories of "remarkable recoveries" shared by her patients which illustrate each of her important steps on the super healing path. As one of those whose recovery is mentioned, I confess my bias in writing this review. But as a physician who has spent a life practicing rehabilitation medicine myself, I recognize that Julie has captured it "all" in this 258 page masterpiece. If you are in need of healing, or know someone who does, or you are a provider of some healing services, you need to read this book. Now!And then share it with a friend.