For people who live with chronic pain, exercise can seem daunting. Some fear it will make their pain worse. But in fact, researchers find the opposite is true: The right kind of exercise can help reduce pain.
At the University of North Carolina, researchers are helping people with painful osteoarthritis in their joints start a walking habit.
Movement helps mitigate the pain and damage of osteoarthritis by building up surrounding muscles to stabilize the hurting joint and by lubricating the cartilage. Finally, exercise may also cause changes in the brain that can make a big difference in damping down pain.
We all have an inner critic, a negative voice in our head rehearsing our worst fears over and over. That voice can hold you back from making new friends, connecting with colleagues or sharing your brilliant ideas. It can even lead to loneliness or isolation.
If you can turn down the volume on that voice, you might find that you can more easily open up and connect, says psychologist Steven Hayes.
"You've got to rein in the dictator within you," he says. "You've got to put that voice on a leash."
The political headlines have been relentless lately. Calls for impeaching the president. Debates over health care, immigration and gun control. Fights over who tweeted what.
Discussions of these issues can quickly get heated and toxic. They can affect relationships and even your health, according recent research. 40% of respondents in a new survey said that politics caused them stress and 20% reported losing sleep, feeling fatigued or being depressed.
It seems that Americans "are suffering some pretty negative consequences because of their attention to and engagement in politics," says political scientists Kevin Smith.
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