Health & Fitness
RSS FeedWe slouch when we’re sad, bend our neck down when depressed, sit up straight when motivated, and walk with a chest out when we’re confident. But sometimes, it’s the other way around. Studies prove that posture affects a person’s mood.
In 1895 a natural healing philosopher named D. D. Palmer noted a spinal bone out of alignment on a partially deaf man named Harvey Lillard. He delivered an adjustment to the affected vertebra to restore the motion and alignment of the spinal bone.
Help someone poop. Take urine samples. Carry people to different rooms. Rush to emergency rooms. Run towards coding rooms. This list doesn’t even cover the worst parts of being a nurse. There’s just too many to mention
No pain, no gain. That is what every employee probably tells herself at the end of the day after long periods of sitting in their not-so-comfortable office chair. Back pain is the price most people pay on top of putting on hours of auditing accounts, writing documents, or encoding data.
They say old habits die hard. But if your old habits are killing you, breaking them is no longer an option.
When you’ve stayed in the corporate world for quite some time, it would not be a surprise to you anymore that posture matters. Not that you’re going superficial about it
How you sleep says a lot about you and it can also have an impact on your health.
With heart disease and cancer topping the charts for causes of death, many consumers are trying t
Any kind of injury is painful to us. Whether the injury is a deep cut or bruises, it always hurts. But when the injury is a broken bone, the pain is unbearable and this pain can be better explained by the ones who have actually experienced it in their lives. Generally, those who suffer from a fracture on their shoulders, wrist or elbow, are recommended to wear arm slings for protection as well as comfort.
Pain is not the same for everyone and as such, everyone’s response to pain is different just as t
Hypertension is unfortunately the most common disease in people around the world.
Whenever we hear about snoring, an image of an overweight, elderly person comes to mind. The same is also true of other sleep problems like insomnia, generally considered to be ‘grown-up’ issues.
Lifestyle changes have made it impossible for an average individual to remain completely disease-free for long. Unless you are someone who eats a balanced diet, works out every day, meditates and practices good sleep hygiene; you may be suffering from one or the other lifestyle-related disorder.
Sometimes we’re lucky and get a general physician that is gentle and warm welcoming as Dr. Oz.
Once your primary doctor can’t find a treatment to relieve your chronic pain, you may be referred
When a general practitioner has done all they can for their patient’s chronic pain, they will tur
Over one hundred million people in America suffer from a pain that never goes away and the majority of those people never get relief. There are different types of pain management available such as injections, medication, surgery and other types of therapy, but the side effects are sometimes are as bad, or worse than the original pain itself.
It is estimated there are more than 100 million people in the United States that suffer from chro
There is a great debate, and the notion is counterintuitive, but the days of low-fat, highly processed foods are a thing of the past. Real foods are in, and that means finding a healthy balance of macronutrients your body needs. Consuming foods high in healthy fats can lead to significant weight loss and other surprising health benefits.
An ancient tradition of the Chinese made its debut in American in the 1970s and that tradition was acupuncture. It is estimated that the Chinese have used acupuncture since 2700 B.C. However, Western medical experts and researchers that operate and staff any pain center have yet to confirm officially the validity of acupuncture.
It is a well-established fact that Sleep Apnea- characterized by snoring, frequent pauses in breathing and partial awakening during sleep- contributes big time to daytime fatigue, restlessness, and irritability. Now, according to the experts, it has been concluded that this condition can lead to even more serious health consequences.