Health Blog Category: Healthy Tips
5 Activities To Put You On a Path Toward Better Health
Do you spend your days hobbling painfully from your bed to your reclining chair and back? Does the simple idea of taking part in any kind of vigorous activity make you cringe?
Physical activity is most likely the furthest thing from your mind if you suffer from chronic pain. The truth, however, is that getting active can vastly improve your health, your comfort, mobility, and overall quality of life!
Why you should care about your health
What does it mean to truly be “healthy?” Essentially, to be healthy means that your body is operating at its highest levels of function in regards to breathing, circulation, digestion, and more.
Read full blogWhy Use Opioids When You Can Find Natural Relief?
We’re all aware of the opioid crisis plaguing the nation. It’s scary – it’s as if every time we turn on the news, we hear another story about the epidemic.
Approximately 11.5 million people in the United States misused the painkilling drugs they were prescribed, costing an estimated $504 million in economic costs. According to researchers, it is believed that numerous people are even being denied jobs due to a failure to pass opioid-free drug tests.
Read full blogTry a Natural Treatment! How Physical Therapy Can Help You Live Without Pain Meds.
By any reasonable standards, ours is a highly medicated society. Scan any grocery store or pharmacy aisle and you’ll see all kinds of over-the-counter painkilling drugs. Doctors routinely write prescriptions for heavier pain relievers, including the opioid drugs that have become a national abuse nightmare. If you’re tired of suffering from chronic pain but you’re not ready to turn your body into an ongoing chemistry experiment, you’ll be happy to know that physical therapy can give you safer, healthier, longer-lasting pain relief.
Read full blog5 Quick Tricks to Stay Active!
As humans, we are on a never-ending hamster wheel that demands we get as much done as possible, but it’s time that we all become a little more realistic about what is and isn’t possible through sheer willpower, especially with regards to staying active.
Repeat after us: My willpower has limits.
Try as you might, you can’t accomplish world peace (or even your to-do list) within a 24-hour period. Instead, you must employ tricks and tips to stay engaged, motivated, and active on your quest to do it all.
Read full blogReduce Pain and Inflammation Through Nutrition
Internal inflammation can wreak havoc with your health. You may already be seeing a physical therapist for inflammation-related health issues, such as arthritis. Whether you have a specific diagnosis or generalized pain in your back and joints, Nebraska Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Fremont & Elkhorn, NE can help. Your physical therapist may also suggest an anti-inflammatory diet for additional pain relief.
What to Avoid
One of the quickest way to reverse nutrition-based inflammation is to stop eating the foods most associated with it.
Read full blogHow Staying Active at Work Can Increase Productivity
Picture yourself at work. Hunched over a keyboard, clicking away on a mouse, answering the phone, or having meetings, the most moving around you are likely to do is to and from the copy machine. It is no surprise that our sedentary jobs are causing fatigue and stiffness, both mentally and physically. Fortunately, having a desk job doesn’t exclude you from experiencing more physical activity at work. Give these activities a try and you are sure to find out you feel better physically and experience higher productivity.
Read full blogHow You Can Stay Active in Your 50’s & 60’s: 3 Tips to Get You Moving
Growing older is filled with change and new challenges to be confronted. For many, these changes often involve coping with a decrease in athletic performance and abilities. However, just because you’re growing older doesn’t mean you still can’t enjoy an active lifestyle. If you are someone who is in their 50’s and 60’s, here are 3 tips to get you moving.
Find an Activity You Enjoy
One of the easiest ways that you can ensure that you remain active into your 50’s and 60’s is by finding an activity that you enjoy doing.
Read full blogThe Best Sleeping Positions to Wake Up Pain-Free
When it comes to muscular, joint and bone pain, sleep may play an integral role. If you’re having trouble settling your body’s score with pain, you might want to consider a few pain-free sleeping positions. Depending upon your consistent morning ailments, a few positions might reduce pain—or strike it out, altogether. Take a look at the following sleeping positions experts believe reduce ongoing morning pain:
Sleeping On Your Back with a Pillow Under Your Legs
A lot of sleep studies suggest sleeping on your back, with a pillow situated beneath the crooks of your legs, can aid in maintaining your lower back curve.
Read full blog5 Steps to Your Fastest Run Time/Marathon
If you’re a competitive runner, you know that every second counts when it comes to your run times. Trying to shave extra seconds off of your last time can be a challenge. You might try to add complex training to your workouts, or push yourself past your comfort level in order to improve. Unfortunately, this might not result in any gain to your time. Even worse, it could put you at risk for an injury. Before stepping up your training, consider going back to the basics. A solid foundation is the key to success, and you might have missed some fundamentals that could be hurting your performance.
Read full blogIs Your Body Functioning Optimally? 5 Signs to Look For.
The human body is a marvel of biology and genetics. It is capable of accomplishing tasks ranging from building massive structures to running a marathon. When it’s working at peak efficiency, few animals on Earth can compete with the grace and power of the human body. Unfortunately, there are times when everything just doesn’t come together. So, if you feel like your body isn’t functioning optimally, here are 5 signs to look for.
Excess Fatigue
When it comes to ensuring that your body is functioning optimally, few things are as important as receiving adequate rest.
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