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How to Fall Asleep Fast (in Five Minutes or Less)
Learning how to fall asleep fast sounds difficult, right? Try these strategies — all you need is your mind and your smartphone. Some nights falling asleep quickly doesn’t come easy,…
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How Long Does Melatonin Last in Your System?
Melatonin is a naturally occurring hormone that helps regulate our sleep-wake cycle or circadian rhythm. Its release is regulated by sunlight. When we are exposed to more light during the…
Does Spinal Decompression Help with Lower Back Pain?
Though many people have dealt with back pain to some extent, chronic pain can be incredibly frustrating, especially if nothing seems to help it. Spinal decompression is a form of therapy…
Why You Need a Foam Seat Cushion
Sitting for long periods of time has consequences such as chronic pain, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), or varicose veins. Plus, it leaves you at an increased risk for cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
2 Best Sleeping Positions for Neck and Shoulder Pain
Neck and shoulder pain—often caused by poor posture, trauma, and joint conditions—impact your comfort when laying in bed and your ability to sleep restoratively. By adjusting your sleeping position and…
Using a Wedge Pillow for Acid Reflux (GERD)
For those who suffer from acid reflux or GERD getting acan be challenging. When these sleepers lie down at night, stomach acid can flow back into the esophagus, causing a…
Sleeping On the Floor: Is it Bad For You?
While sleeping on a mattress is the most preferred sleep environment, there is an increasing number of people who choose to sleep on the floor for its potential health benefits,…
5 Best Sleeping Positions for Lower Back Pain
Lower back pain and poor sleep have a two-way relationship, meaning one intensifies the other. Back pain makes it difficult to get comfortable in bed, resulting in poor sleep and…
13 Tips to Sleep Better at Night
If sleeping through the night feels like an impossible task, you’re not alone—over 30 percent of adults struggle with sleeplessness. And the causes of sleep deprivation vary, as many attribute…
9 Tips to Sleep Better with Asthma
Millions of people are affected byor nighttime asthma. Symptoms include a tight chest, coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath, and they make sleep impossible. You end up feeling tired and…
7 Benefits of a Standing Desk
The concept around the increasingly popular standing desk is to reduce the amount of time you’re sedentary at work. A growing number of studies have linked being excessively sedentary to…
Four Types of Sciatic Nerve Pain
Sciatica is a form of radiculopathy—a mild to severe pain caused by the compression or pinching of a spinal nerve root. Sciatica radiates pain down the legs and feet, away…
By April Mayer
How to Test if You Have Sciatica
Sciatica is a group of distinct symptoms causing intense, sometimes debilitating pain down the sciatic nerve.nearly 40 percent of people experience sciatic pain at some point, and while the pain…
By Stacy Liman