Dr. Julie Silver, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, is a renowned expert in physical medicine and rehabilitation (physiatry) and is on the medical staff at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Brigham and Women’s, Massachusetts General, and Spaulding Rehabilitation hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including a number of medical textbooks and the books After Cancer Treatment: Heal Faster, Better, Stronger; Polio Voices; Understanding Fitness; and Life After Stroke. She is also the Chief Editor of Books at Harvard Health Publications and the recipient of many awards including the most prestigious honor bestowed by the American Cancer Society, The Lane Adams Quality of Life Award.
As a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation, Dr. Silver has taught her patients to utilize special physical rehabilitation strategies to help them heal faster, better, stronger—in other words, to super heal. She now imparts that gift of super healing in her latest book, Super Healing: The Clinically Proven Plan to Maximize Recovery from Illness or Injury. Dr. Silver addresses the three most important components in physical recovery—a healing diet, therapeutic exercise, and proper rest. She shows you how to take these three components, which she calls the Super Healing Synergy, and use them to facilitate healing far beyond what any one component can do alone.
Dr. Silver is a cancer survivor who took her own journey through the “healing zone,” perfecting her healing techniques as she worked to speed her own recovery. She lives outside of Boston and has three children, who are the authors of Our Mom Is Getting Better and Our Dad Is Getting Better, published by the American Cancer Society.