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My Sore Neck: Thoughts From a Frequent Flyer

Pain Management

My Sore Neck: Thoughts From a Frequent Flyer

Dear airline seat designers,

We frequent flyers are a sore bunch. Plane seats cause so much pain I’d even give up my 70% dark chocolate in exchange for better seats.

For some silly reason, most seats have a bump at the top that pushes your head forward. If you’re 5’10, that bump probably fits nicely into the curve […]

Heather Tick2017-06-21T14:29:05-07:00March 10th, 2015|Pain Management|

6 Ways to Combat the Hazards of Sitting All Day

Exercise

6 Ways to Combat the Hazards of Sitting All Day

Sitting is making us sick. We know that too much sitting leads to huge increases in our risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Some health professionals have started calling sitting all day a “serious health hazard”.

Our bodies were made to move- to perform thousands of different movements through the day. In our developed economies […]

Heather Tick2017-06-20T14:56:19-07:00December 11th, 2014|Exercise|