The Rapid Recovery Handbook: Your Complete Guide to Faster Healing AfterSurgery

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This is the ultimate guide to maximizing the body's ability to heal for anyone who is planning for or recovering from surgery, injury or pregnancy. By understanding the body's marvelous ability to repair and rebuild itself, we can prepare and fine-tune our bodies to optimize our healing potential post surgery. "The Rapid Recovery Handbook" provide an understanding of the healing process and the essential tools to make sure self-healing mechanisms are in top working order, covering every repair-related detail a patient needs to know from the planning-for-surgery period through the late stages of recovery at home. Written for a variety of patients dealing with a wide scope of surgeries and injuries, "The Rapid Recovery Handbook" reveals three practical factors that account for the individualized nature of recovery: nutrition and botanical support (the primary way to prepare for surgery and to enhance healing from injury), physical support (including such beneficial therapies as massage, acupuncture, Reiki, hydrotherapy and others) and mind-body support (including hypnosis and mindful breathing to address the stress response).

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"This innovative guide to enhancing your self-healing potential...exemplifies the benefits of an integrative model of health care." -- Susan Gaylor, PhD, director, Program on Integrative Medicine, UNC School of Medicine; editor, Complementary Health Practive Review

"A powerful and effective resource...the strategies presented here should be integrated into standard care. Until then, buy this book!" -- Tracy W. Gaudet, MD, director, Duke Center for Integrative Medicine, Duke University

"An excellent resource for both the patient and the physician." -- Bernie Siegel, MD, author of Love, Medicine & Miracles and Help Me to Heal

"...provides a detailed and reliable roadmap for anyone who has contemplated or embarked on a surgical adventure." -- Mark W. McClure, MD, FACS, author of Smart Medicine for a Healthy Prostate, cofounder, Landmark Urology and Complementary Medicine

Author Bio

Elizabeth G. Motyka, M.D. is an obstetrician and gynecologist with a private practice focusing on conscious wellness, holistic gynecology and the use of alternative and complementary therapies in repairing and recovering from surgery. She is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at UNC, where she coordinates educational programs on integrative medicine and lectures on the use of alternative and complementary therapies in women's health. Thomas M. Motyka, D.O. is a clinician, researcher, educator and nationally known speaker in the area of integrative health and osteopathic medicine. He is a board-certified internist, currently in private practice in Carrboro, NC and at the University of North Carolina where he runs the "Osteopathic Manipulation Clinic." Dr. Motyka is clinical Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, and lectures widely on complementary therapies and the osteopathic approach to pain and musculoskeletal conditions. M. Nathaniel Mead is a freelance writer who has coauthored and ghostwritten books on cancer, AIDS, allergies, and autism, in addition to chapters for numerous books on integrative medicines. A former long-time contributing editor to Natural Health magazine, he has also written articles for Utne Reader, American Health, Environmental Health Perspectives, Advances: The Journal of Mind-Body Health, and many other publications. He has lectured at Duke University, the UNC School of Medicine, and the National College of Naturopathic Medicine on using nutrition and botanicals in tandem with conventional therapies.