How To Manage and Reduce Holiday Stress
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Stop Stressing About New Year’s Resolutions: A Better Approach to Health Goals
January arrives with familiar pressure: New Year, New You. Social media explodes with transformation promises, gym memberships surge, and diet plans proliferate. By February, most resolutions have failed, leaving people feeling defeated and stressed about their inability to change. The problem isn’t lack of willpower or motivation—it’s how we approach goal-setting. At Performance Health, we
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Building a Nighttime Routine to Reduce Stress and Improve Sleep
You’ve had a stressful day. Your shoulders are tight, your mind is racing with tomorrow’s to-do list, and you know you need good sleep to recover—but the moment you lie down, sleep feels impossible. Sound familiar? Poor sleep and chronic stress create a vicious cycle: stress disrupts sleep, and inadequate sleep reduces your stress tolerance,
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Why Both Cardio and Strength Training Are Essential for Managing Stress
When stress levels rise, exercise often becomes one of the first things people sacrifice. Ironically, this is exactly when your body needs movement most. The relationship between exercise and stress management is well-established, but not all exercise provides the same benefits. Understanding how different types of training affect your nervous system can help you design
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Heart Rate Variability: The Hidden Metric That Reveals Your Stress Levels
You’ve probably tracked your heart rate during exercise or checked your resting heart rate as a basic health metric. But there’s another cardiovascular measurement that provides far more insight into your stress levels, recovery, and overall nervous system function: heart rate variability, or HRV. At Performance Health, we’re increasingly recognizing HRV as a valuable tool
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What Is Stress, Really? Understanding How Your Nervous System Responds
We use the word ‘stress’ constantly—’I’m so stressed,’ ‘work is stressful,’ ‘stress is killing me.’ But what exactly is stress from a physiological standpoint? Understanding what happens in your body during stress is the first step toward managing it effectively. At Performance Health, we see patients every day whose physical symptoms—headaches, muscle tension, digestive issues,
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Try These 3 Chiropractor-Approved Tips for Reducing Holiday Stress
Bottom Line: We all know someone who gets sick around the holidays every year. Are they just unlucky? Well, while it probably would have helped if someone had shared some tips for reducing holiday stress like those, we’re about to share with you (insert *fake cough*) … Thankfully, luck doesn’t have anything to do with
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3 Unique Ways Chiropractors Can Help Relieve Holiday Stress
Bottom Line: Did you know… chronic stress – especially chronic holiday stress – can contribute to health challenges like anxiety and even back pain. Why? When your body is in a constant state of stress, it produces hormones that can disrupt almost all your body’s natural processes. That’s one of the big reasons discovering healthy
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How Holiday Stress Affects the Body (and How Chiropractic Can Help)
Bottom Line: Your stress level and spinal health are linked through your nervous system. Just think about what happens to you physically when you get stressed out. More specifically, think about how holiday stress affects the body. Your muscles tense, your breathing patterns change, and often, so does the way you move. As the leading
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Got Chronic Holiday Stress? Chiropractic Can Help.
Bottom Line: As the leading chronic pain chiropractor, we know a thing or two about stress and the effects it can have on our neighbors before, during, and after the holiday season. And stress can be a good thing. If a lion were chasing you, an increase in heart rate, muscle tension, and focus would