Understanding Tennis Elbow: Causes and Symptoms

Understanding Tennis Elbow: Causes and Symptoms
Tennis elbow, despite its name, isn't restricted to the tennis court. Its a common issue that can affect anyone, including busy executive mums who spend extensive hours working on laptops. The repetitive motions involved in keyboard use can lead to discomfort in the wrists and elbows, making tennis elbow a pertinent concern for this demographic. In this blog, we will discuss the basics of tennis elbow, its causes and symptoms, and how they relate to the daily experiences of executive mums ....
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Where is Stress-Related Pain and Muscle Tension felt?

Where is Stress-Related Pain and Muscle Tension felt?
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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Four simple tips to prevent Neck & Shoulder Pain when Driving

Four simple tips to prevent Neck & Shoulder Pain when Driving
As a working mum I spend a considerable amount of time in the drivers seat of my car, whether it is to pick and drop my kids to school and classes or to drive to work. If you have work travel or long meetings as a part of your job this could add up to sitting for long hours. It is not uncommon for working mums to get neck and shoulder pain from all these hours of sitting. In this blog, lets discuss four simple tips that you can implement today to prevent neck and shoulder pain when driving ....
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How can you reduce your morning stiffness?

How can you reduce your morning stiffness?
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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3 tips for Reducing Stress-Related Pain and Muscle Tension

3 tips for Reducing Stress-Related Pain and Muscle Tension
It is a well known fact that physical stress can lead to pain in the body. But it is also true that mental stress or anxiety can also lead to spinal (back & neck) and joint pain. However mental stress is an integral part of life for most people. More so for working mum who are constantly juggling and multitasking work, kids home, work travels, meetings, sitting for long hours at the desk, etc. 
In this blog, lets discuss three tips to reduce stress related Pain and Muscle Tension .....

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