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

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 they're through this critical phase, they may be left to their own devices to "finish" healing.

These patients may not realize it, but they've entered a special time between acute sickness and optimal health--what Julie Silver, MD, calls the Healing Zone. Capitalizing on the dynamic power of the Healing Zone is what Super Healing is all about.

Over the years, Dr. Silver has taught thousands of patients how to Super Heal by utilizing key principles of rehabilitation medicine, proven through evidence-based research. She has distilled these principles into a self-guided program with the following core components:

-Exercising in a therapeutic manner
-Eating a healing diet
-Obtaining proper rest and sleep
-Alleviating pain
-Avoiding mood problems
-Using the mind to heal the body
-Improving loving relationships and social connections
-Harnessing spiritual energy

Collectively, these components can facilitate recovery from illness or injury far beyond what any one can do alone. It's not just healing--it's Super Healing.

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.