Stress Management: Symptoms, Muscle Loss & Relievers

Can chronic stress cause you to lose muscle size or trigger painful shingles? From using Kava Kava for relief to avoiding burnout, understanding the physical and emotional symptoms of stress overload is key to wellness.

Headache & Temporal Tenderness

Many things can cause a headache, including stress, hormones, weather, medications and sinus pressure. Temporal arteritis causes the temple region to feel tender and occurs when the arteries are inflamed. One major symptom of temporal arteritis is a headache.

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Emotional Stress & Chest Pain

Chest pain is frightening because it can mean a heart attack or other physical problem. Fortunately, it doesn't always mean you have a serious health condition. You may just be under too much emotional stress, and your mental state is manifesting itself physically.

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What Is Inside Squeeze Stress Balls?

Stress balls are an excellent way to relieve stress anywhere you are, at any time. Their portability allow you to take them with you to work or school or even out while you're running your daily errands.

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How to Do Shoulder Shrugs Properly

Shoulder shrugs target your upper trapezius muscles, also known as the traps. In colloquial gym language, well-developed upper traps are often called a yoke.

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Severe Stress-Induced Allergic Reactions

That stress can knock your immune system off the top of its game isn't shocking, but you may surprised to learn that undergoing emotional and mental stress can actually create physical reactions, including allergic reactions. Sometimes these reactions become severe, especially if they last more than one day.

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How to Prevent Risen Boils

Boils, also called risens and furuncles, are round, raised bumps on the skin filled with puss and caused by a Staphylococcus bacteria infection. Boils often develop around a hair follicle root, and often occur in children and adolescents, although adults can also get them.

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