When people are seriously ill or injured, at some point they are left to their own devices to "finish" healing. As a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation, Dr. Silver has taught her patients to utilize special physical rehabilitation strategies to help them heal better, faster, and stronger - in other words, to super-heal. That gift ...
Dr. Julie Silver offers a holistic approach to healing after cancer treatment, one that uses clinical medicine as a springboard for describing a variety of approaches that can lead to better quality of life for cancer survivors. Silver, a cancer survivor herself and a physiatrist at Harvard University whose job as a doctor is to help people feel ...
A guide for polio survivors, their families and their health-care providers. It offers advice on all aspects of post-polio syndrome. Based on her extensive experience treating post-polio patients, Dr Silver discusses issues of crucial importance, including how to find the best medical care, deal with symptoms, sustain mobility, manage pain, ...
Silver reviews the causes and characteristics of chronic pain and explores its impact on family relationships, covering such issues as employment, parenting, childbearing and inheritance, and emotional health.
If you or someone you love has had a stroke, you understand that after a stroke, a person has many questions: "What is a stroke, and why did I have one?" "How can I best recover from my stroke?" "How can I make sure this never happens to me again?" Every 45 seconds someone in this country has a stroke; this means that about five million stroke ...
The effects of polio that occur decades after the disease has run its course - weakness, fatigue, pain, intolerance to cold, difficulty with breathing and swallowing - are often more devastating than the original disease. This book on the diagnosis and management of poliorelated health problems is an essential resource for polio survivors and ...
Here, in their own words, hundreds of cancer survivors from all walks of life - including celebrities like Lance Armstrong, Carly Simon, Scott Hamilton, and many others - offer their true-life experiences, heartfelt reflections, encouragement, hope, and solutions for 'getting through' the cancer journey. Their goal: to give readers the strength, ...
Practical and authoritative, this new edition delivers easy access to the latest advances in the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal disorders and other common conditions requiring rehabilitation. Each topic is presented in a concise, focused, and well-illustrated two-color format featuring a description of the condition, discussion of ...
Many survivors of the polio epidemic of the first half of the 20th century are now experiencing a recurrence of symptoms, known as postpolio syndrome (PPS). This book, written by leaders in the field, describes the features of this disorder and its diagnosis, evaluation, management, and rehabilitation. It reviews the problems specific to people ...
A major new work in physical medicine and rehabilitation that is both practical and authoritative, this text provides easily accessible information on the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal disorders and other common conditions requiring rehabilitation. Each topic is presented in a concise, focused, and well-illustrated two-colour format ...
Harvard's Dr. Julie Silver and bodybuilding champion Christopher Morin join forces with expert contributors to explain just how movement can fuel health and recovery from illness. This work includes a thoughtful review of social factors including historical exercise traditions and more recent fitness fads. The text details the health benefits of ...
This practical, one-of-a-kind manual guides you step by step through the most common injection techniques for a full range of disorders. Experts in the field help you assess whether an injection is indicated, localize the site, choose the correct needle, avoid possible complications, provide necessary post-injection care, and more. A user-friendly ...
Incorporating many rare photographs - most never made public before - from the family albums of survivors who tell their stories in this volume, Daniel Wilson and Julie Silver, M.D., help readers understand the terror that gripped America during the first half of the 20th century as polio epidemics ran rampant. Interviewed as part of the Polio ...
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