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The Healing Zone

BY MELISSA GASKILL

“The three most important components of healing are building strength and endurance through therapeutic exercise, eating a healing diet and allowing your body to rest well,” says Julie Silver, MD.

According to Silver, the healing zone is that place and time period where there is the opportunity to recover more fully. “It can last, as in my experience, three years, or more,” she says. “You can work at healing every day, but there are parts of recovery that simply take time. The expectation with technology is that things happen instantaneously. But healing needs to take place at the right speed. You don’t want to force it; you want to facilitate it.” ...

[THIS STORY APPEARS IN FULL IN THE SPRING 2008 ISSUE OF HEAL]