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National Stress Awareness Month

4/28/2015

April is Stress Awareness Month. Each April, 30 days are dedicated to getting the word out about stress awareness. According to the American Institute of Stress, 77 percent of Americans feel physical symptoms of stress on a regular basis. That number is way too high. People deal with stress every day and it impacts every aspect of life. Your personal, professional, and physical health are affected, and yet, many people don’t take the necessary measures to try and manage their stress. This April, set aside some time to control what is affecting you! Here are some great tips to handling your stress!

Breathe: As simple as it sounds, breathing can be one of the most beneficial things you do for reducing stress. If you ever feel stressed out, take a minute, sit down and take a couple of long, deep breaths. This will help you clear your mind and slow your heart rate down.
Get some exercise: Dedicate 30 minutes of your day to some yoga, going for a run or even just a walk! This wakes your body up. By increasing your endorphins you will feel twice as good and ready to take on whatever challenge comes next.
Write it down: Start making a checklist of everything you want to accomplish and maybe some goals for the future. Having what you need to do on paper will make it much easier to remember what you have to do and crossing it off your list will give you a great feeling of accomplishment.
Set aside “you” time: With all your running around, you probably feel selfish taking time for yourself. Don’t! Setting time aside to do what you like to do like watching a show or reading a book will make you feel happier and more satisfied with your day.

Implementing some of these tips in your daily routine can highly reduce stress in your life. While April is Stress Awareness Month, it is important to remember these tips year round, to keep yourself stress-free and functioning at 100%.

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Tennis Elbow and how Physical Therapy can help

4/9/2015

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With the weather getting warmer, and spring around the corner, everyone is ready to get outside and do fun filled activities. But it’s very important to try and avoid injury, especially a common injury known as tennis elbow. Tennis elbow is a condition caused by repetitive use of the arm, forearm, and hand muscle, which leaves an end result of in elbow pain. It doesn’t necessarily happen just to tennis players, even though statistics shows that about 50% are affected during their tennis playing careers.

So what exactly is Tennis Elbow? Tennis elbow is inflammation of the tendons, which is located on the outer bony prominence. There are many symptoms of this condition, and the main ones are increased pain, in and around the elbow, morning stiffness of the elbow, tenderness and soreness of the arm and elbow. As well as increased pain when grasping, or having moment of the arm.

When it comes to the healing of this condition, physical therapy is the way to go. Physical therapists will utilize certain stretches and exercises to help strengthen the arm, forearm, and hand muscles. As well as increasing the flexibility of the arm. It is also common to wear a brace or a wrap around your arm, that will help reduce pain. Physical therapy can help prevent further steps taken such as surgery or even getting steroid shots in your arm, which is unlikely to work the first few times. Physical therapy helps prevent getting the condition tennis elbow, and will teach you techniques (if you are a tennis player or not) that will help lessen the chances of injury and increase the knowledge of proper usage of playing sports.

Don’t wait till this happens to you! Take the precautions now, and if you’re in pain do the right thing and seek out your physical therapist! Its worth it!

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