Increasingly, more people are working from home to stay productive while practicing social distancing. However, some common practices that result from turning your home into an office could be causing pain, especially in the neck, back, hips, legs and hands. Thankfully, these conditions are preventable and treatable, and we’re here to share some tips and […]
There is one word that probably isn’t in your health and wellness vocabulary but will be soon: microbiome. The New England Journal of Medicine defines the human microbiome as the collection of all genomes of microbes – or microscopic living organisms – in the ecosystem that is our body. The majority of these colonize in […]
We’ve all been there. It’s a new year and you’re ready for a new, healthier you! You’ve signed up for a full-year gym membership and have your workout playlist ready to rock. Before long, a month goes by and those well-planned healthy New Year’s resolutions dwindle into an afterthought. It doesn’t have to be that […]
The holiday season can be a stressful time of year. One thing that can cause us this stress is food. It seems we start eating and don’t stop until January! If this sounds familiar, Williamson Medical Center dietician Lisa Mathews, M.S., R.D., L.D.N., C.D.E, has some ideas for you. She and her colleagues have put […]
Our bodies are made up of 50% to 80% water, depending on our age. With age, our total body content of water naturally decreases, which makes the elderly population prone to dehydration, that can occur when we lose too much of that water either from sweating, vomiting or diarrhea, among other causes. There are three […]
For many of us, we sit in a chair for eight hours a day, five days a week. We stare at a computer screen all day, and the most movement we do is in our wrists and fingers as we type. Yet millions of Americans every year suffer from neck and back pain in a […]
