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

by Julie Silver

A rehabilitation-centered guide for the stretch between treatment and restored health

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A rehabilitation-centered guide for the stretch between treatment and restored health

Julie Silver frames recovery as a distinct phase that can continue after emergency care, discharge, or the end of what a clinician can offer. Drawing on rehabilitation medicine, the book identifies a “Healing Zone” between acute illness or injury and a return to fuller health. It presents recovery as involving both physical function and emotional well-being, with strategies intended to help people take an active role in the healing process. The emphasis is on the often under-addressed period when someone is no longer at their sickest but has not yet regained their previous level of health.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults recovering from a serious illness or injury
  • People seeking a rehabilitation-oriented perspective on physical and emotional recovery
  • Readers interested in self-directed recovery strategies after medical treatment

Themes

RehabilitationRecovery after illness or injuryPhysical healingEmotional healingPatient self-management

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Book overview

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.

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