The Rapid Recovery Handbook: Your Complete Guide to Faster Healing After Surgery – Optimize Your Body's Potential to Repair and Rebuild

by Elizabeth Motyka, Tom Motyka, Mark Nathaniel Mead

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.

304 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2006

About the author

ELIZABETH G. MOTYKA, MD began practicing as an OB/Gyn in 1990. She is the founder of For Women, PA a private practice focusing on Holistic Gynecology and Conscious
Wellness in Chapel Hill, NC. Prior to opening her practice in 2002, she was an Associate Professor of Ob/Gyn at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine for eight years.
She is devoted to helping empower women achieve full health in body, mind, heart, and spirit .
She has written 2 books. "The Rapid Recovery Handbook" with Thomas Motyka, DO and Mark
Mead, MSc and more recently "The Beginners' 10 step Guide to the Sexual Universe". She is married and has one daughter. Her practice website is http://www.forwomengyn.com/