Stress and Memory

Stress and MemorySome memory loss is considered a mild cognitive impairment, but chronic, long-term stress can have a serious effect on the severity of that memory loss. When you’re exposed to stress, your body releases hormones, including cortisol, which may prevent the brain from remembering new information or even retrieving already stored items.

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Is Your Bed Hurting Your Back?

Back pain can make it impossible to function as a normal human being. The discomfort of a bad back can make it impossible to sit or stand with any degree of comfort. Worse yet, you can’t seem to find a comfortable position to get to sleep. Ironically, the cause of your pain could be your bed.

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Traveling With One Arm Tied Behind Your Back

Disability TravelIf you travel with a disability, handicap, physical limitation, mobility limitation, or developmental disability, have special needs, or use an electric wheelchair or handicap scooter, it’s a good idea to learn as much as you can to make disabled travel easier.

Or if you’re a mature traveler or senior who is a slow walker or just wants a slower pace, becoming more informed about disabled travel services and disability travel resources, will lessen the anxiety that often accompanies disabled travelers.

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Chronic Joint Pain

Arthritic HandsChronic joint pain can be caused by any number of reasons. Sometimes there is an infection of the body, and it reaches one or more joints and infects that area too. Other times your body may be ill in some way, or the immune system is out of balance or weakened.

Teens and Physical Challenges

Disabled PromThe teenage years are difficult for both parent and child.  Raging hormones combined with physical challenges can be a nightmare for the unprepared parent.  How can parents help their physically challenged teenager? First, remember that teenagers are in the thrall of hormones.

Between the ages of thirteen to eighteen, these children are growing into young adulthood.  Teenagers are finding out new things about their bodies and how to keep from feeling awkward in social situations.  When you factor in physical challenges, things can get explosive.

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How To Relieve The Pain Of A Pinched Nerve

Moist Heating Pads - TheraTherm Digital Moist Heating PadsAs our culture continues to spend most of its time sitting down, we are finding it more necessary to relieve back pain. We spend hours in a commute to work, hours upon hours sitting at a desk. We stay glued in front of a computer at work or home and then finish it all off with sitting in front of the TV. Then we go to bed eventually and wake up in the morning not feeling very refreshed or renewed, our backs still aching. That’s when we decide we need to find a way to relieve back pain.

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