The Rapid Recovery Handbook - by Elizabeth Motyka & Tom Motyka & M Nathaniel Mead (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The ultimate guide to optimizing the body's ability to heal for anyone who is planning for or recovering from surgery

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 provides an understanding of the healing process and the essential tools to make sure self-healing mechanisms are in top working order.

Written for a variety of patients dealing with a wide scope of surgeries and injuries, this comprehensive guide includes information on nutrition, massage, acupuncture, hydrotherapy, and other methods of ensuring a quick recovery from any surgery.

From the Back Cover

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 will 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). Complete with a foreword by Dr. Mehmet Oz, the book also has several appendices for lay and science-savvy readers alike.

Review Quotes

"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