Chiropractic Works! » stress http://www.chiropracticworks.org Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:40:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 How to Attack Holiday Stress Head-On http://www.chiropracticworks.org/stress/how-to-attack-holiday-stress-head-on http://www.chiropracticworks.org/stress/how-to-attack-holiday-stress-head-on#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:42:34 +0000 author http://www.chiropracticworks.org/stress/how-to-attack-holiday-stress-head-on Expert offers tips for coping with common scenarios

 

SATURDAY, Dec. 12 (HealthDay News) — With pressures from the economic hard times, dysfunctional families and countless other factors, the holidays can contribute to emotional stress and depression.

But there are ways to cope with the various scenarios that people experience at this time of year, according to Dr. Laura Miller, director of women’s mental health in the psychiatry department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

For instance, she suggests:

If seasonal depression gets worse in fall and winter …

  • A therapeutic light box, which provides powerful light beyond what you can come up with yourself, might help in the morning. A doctor can help obtain one.
  • Exercise can also make you feel better.

If you’re busy and stressed out …

  • Take time for fun activities such as walking, meditating, exercising and hanging out with friends.
  • Consider buying prepared foods instead of trying to make everything yourself.
  • In general, reduce the number of activities that are more stressful than joyful.    Read more…

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]]> http://www.chiropracticworks.org/stress/how-to-attack-holiday-stress-head-on/feed 0 Chiropractic Works to Reduce Stress http://www.chiropracticworks.org/stress/chiropractic-works-to-reduce-stress http://www.chiropracticworks.org/stress/chiropractic-works-to-reduce-stress#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:09:08 +0000 admin http://www.chiropracticworks.org/?p=94 There’s no getting around it. Life is stressful right from the start. Just being born was a stressful event, right? Getting out of the birth canal required our pushing our way through a very small space in a limited amount of time. And, sometimes, doesn’t it seem like you still have to “push” to get anything accomplished? And, that time is usually of the essence! Stress can make you tired and sick, or sick and tired. And, even though chiropractic treatment may not change the stresses in your life that have to do with your job, home, kids, relative, and the economy, seeing your chiropractor regularly can help to reduce the effects of stress on your body.

As a reaction to stress, our muscles unconsciously tighten. Tight muscles cause a precipitation of more tight muscles, as well as the shortening of muscles and ligaments. This results in a decrease in joint mobility, especially shoulder and hip joints, and certain joints of the spine.

Excessive muscle tension, in addition to being painful, wastes valuable nutritional resources and uses up the energy required for vital functions of the body. Stress causes a chain reaction as lactic acid accumulates in tight muscles, irritates nerve endings, and the irritation increases muscular tightness. Increased irritation and decreased joint mobility produces pain in the body and, naturally, creates more stress.

Chiropractic treatment breaks the chain of stress restoring healthy spinal motion. When muscle tightness is eased, metabolic processes are able to return to normal, and nutrients become more available to help maintain healthy body functioning.

When we are out of pain, we are more able to handle the daily stresses in our life.

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