Create a Home Workspace to Stay Pain-Free, Productive
As millions transition into working from home to help thwart the spread of the coronavirus, maintaining both workspace comfort and productivity has no doubt been an issue for many. While in-office workstations are often designed around ergonomic considerations and long-term trial and error, ensuring optimal comfort and health, home workspaces can often fall short in […]
Get Back(packing)! – Backpacker Pain Relief
Hiking presents its own set of challenges, but backpacking is a different beast altogether. Even if you’re just doing a day trip for a picnic with a view, hoisting around a backpack while you’re scaling a mountain requires more from your trunk than hiking. Back pain is a common complaint from backpacking, and it’s not […]
Trailing Behind – Pain Relief Exercises
As discussed last week, the ankle is the body’s foundation when it comes to hiking. Assuming this foundational area is great, we can start looking at other regions if hiking is a challenge and pain relief exercises to start feeling better. Knee or hip pain can ruin your next trek up the mountain. Both joints […]
Losing Your Footing – Hiking Health
Oregon is truly a great place to be, especially for those who enjoy getting outdoors. There are miles and miles of hiking trails all across the state with pretty much any kind of terrain you could want. It’s easy to get the most out of your hiking experience in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest at […]
Managing Chronic Pain – Take a Load Off
When it comes to managing chronic pain, there are a lot of variables that can impact pain. Being able to identify what certain physical activities lead to pain is a great starting point, but do you just stop altogether? Do you keep doing that activity anyway? Do you cut back a little? If so, how […]
Getting Up From a Fall – Picking Yourself Up
Falls are an unfortunate truth for the aging adult. While falls can lead to injury, many of them don’t, which should come as good news though. Falling sometimes isn’t the problem though – it’s getting up from a fall! We’ve all seen the “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” Life Alert commercials. They […]
Improving Balance – Fallen on Hard Times
Last week, we discussed tests that could be performed to see if you are at risk for falls. If you didn’t do well on one or multiple tests, you’re probably wondering what can be done to do better. Though it might be challenging, there are ways to improving balance! Strength is a major component […]
Falls & Injuries – Risky Business
Fall related injuries are a major concern for many people around the world. With major advancements in public health over the past century or so, our expected life spans have been expanding. While we have done a great job staving off infections and acute diseases, we have had a harder time dealing with chronic diseases […]
Tension Headache – Stress and Duress
Stress affects the body in funny ways. As we discussed last week, stress can lead to worsening of or even create pain. The type of pain can very from person to person, but a common version of stress-induced pain are headaches. A tension headache, or stress-related headache, is fairly well understood. Many of us have […]
Stressing the Mind and Body
Yes, it’s December. For many people, the holiday season is the most stressful time of year. People are traveling for the holidays despite flight delays and hazardous road conditions. Money is tighter after getting gifts for our friends and family. The changes in weather mean less time outside… it’s a lot. For those who are […]