Most executive mums have a demanding job with long hours of sitting and this can sometimes aggravate their back and sciatic pain. When its time to go to bed and relax after a long day at work this nerve pain can get more pronounced, leading to disturbed sleep and a restless night during those precious moments of rest. If this describes your Sciatic pain, you may have questions why your sciatica gets aggravated at night. In this blog, let discuss why your sciatica is worse at night. This knowledge can help you to understand the pain better and work towards the solutions for this problem ....
Prolonged sitting for meetings or work related travels or driving for long hours and managing home, kids and work can lead to joint and nerve pains for working mums, as these physically stressful situations can lead to irritation of the nerves. Physical stresses can also be in the form of poor sleeping postures, as we spend quite a few hours in one position when we are sleeping. When it comes to relieving nerve pain, it's important to avoid sleeping positions that may exacerbate discomfort. In this blog, lets discuss which sleeping position is bad for nerve pain. We will also address how to adopt good sleeping postures if you want to manage or avoid nerve pains ....
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If you are a mom of younger kids, working in a high stress executive job, feeling the weight of mental stress or anxiety, you are not alone. Between juggling various responsibilities, work hours, taking care of your family, and managing your own well-being, it's common to feel overwhelmed and stressed. But mental stress can have an effect on your immune system, sleep pattern, gut health and can even manifest as muscle tension or tightness, pain or soreness. This can be seen as a new area of pain or a flare up of pre existing muscle pain or conditions such as fibromyalgia, arthritis, etc. Interestingly stress can also reduce your pain threshold, leading to a higher perceived pain level. Though stress can manifest as pain and muscle tension throughout the body, but it tends to manifest more in some specific areas. In this blog lets discuss more about these pains and where they are felt in the body. Once you are able to identify that your pain is caused due to mental stress or anxiety you will be able to address the root cause and manage it better ....
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Morning stiffness is not uncommon for those who suffer from joint or back/neck pain. This is especially true for working mums who sit at their desks for long hours, attend long meetings or work travels and also take care of the kids and the house. In this blog lets discuss five simple tips to help reduce your morning stiffness and enjoy a pain-free start to your day ....
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As our working days are being spent hunched over the desk for 8 to 10 hours everyday, more and more people seem to develop a poor posture. Slumped or slouched posture has always been associated with depression and mental stress. A study done by Harvard university even found that sitting up straight in a good posture improved anxiety, stress and depression symptoms. In this blog, lets discuss how a poor posture lead to anxiety ....
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