Health

Dealing With Anxiety

This week is Mental Health Awareness week. This year the focus is on ANXIETY, something that affects all of us from time to time.

 

We all get those feelings of stress in our everyday lives. Exam stress, the anxiety felt before an important meeting or interview, or even the fear of the unknown. Whatever it may be, anxiety affects us all in various degrees.

 

For some people, dealing with anxiety can be overwhelming. Anxiety can manifest itself as feelings of nervousness, sweaty palms, a lack of concentration and feeling worried. At its most severe, anxiety can result in panic attacks and feeling completely out of control.

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Back Pain Remedies: The Alternative to Pills

For most people back pain is not necessarily serious and will disappear after a short while. What makes it such a pressing issue is the amount of people it affects. It is the biggest cause of absence from work in the UK.

NHS statistics state that chronic back pain costs the NHS £1.3 million every day.

The onset of back pain can vary from person to person.

Causes of back pain include physical work, things like frequent bending, sudden movements, lifting something particularly heavy, being static for a long period of time.

Often psychological factors such as stress and anxiety can have an impact on back pain.

Pain related to the back can extend to other parts of the body. Sometimes pain in the lower back pain can be felt all the way down the back or side of your leg. Upper or middle back pain can cause a burning sensation or sharp pain and you may feel muscles are tense. Neck pain and stiffness can be coupled with headaches when suffering from whiplash.

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Dig Out Your Walking Boots – It’s National Walking Month

Let’s get walking! That’s the message this month, also known as National Walking Month!

And what a month to get walking! According to the met office, May boasts an average of 185.9 hours of sunshine and an breezy average temperature of 14.7 degrees in the UK. With recent temperatures already busting that average this is certainly the perfect month to give your legs a gentle work out.

We love this opportunity get fit and save ourselves some pennies. Even more motivating are the statistics included in a report last year. The report suggested that if people in England did the recommended 150 minutes exercising per week, we could be saving 37000 lives every year, preventing 6700 cases of breast cancer and reducing cases of type 2 diabetes by 300000.

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