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Want to Reduce Stress in Your 60s? Here’s How to Beat Anxiety with Herbal Medicines If you regularly feel apprehensive or panicky, or experience feelings of dread, you could have general anxiety disorder in which you worry excessively about a number of everyday problems. The diagnosis is made after symptoms have lasted for six months, but if you are always anticipating disaster and unable to relax through worry, it’s best

The 30 Most Common Injuries for Adults Over 50 The body is strong, but even it can’t completely withstand the test.   As you age, things help you function—from the muscles to bones that give you structure—start to slowly deteriorate, and these natural changes can lead to some pretty serious injuries. From sometimes-fatal hip fractures to harrowing hamstring strains, here are the most common injuries in adults over 50. And if

How To Keep Exercising Despite Chronic Pain Pain is a great excuse if you don’t like to exercise, and it’s certainly something many people with chronic pain would just as soon avoid. Yet at the same time exercise is one of the things that can help make that pain go away. “It can become a Catch-22 situation,” says Dr. Victor M. Romano, a board certified orthopedic surgeon and author of

Unique Challenges of Women With Back Pain…The Silent Majority? When considering back pain in men vs. women, there are both similarities as well as differences. While we often have the same conditions with similar signs and symptoms, there are factors unique to women that represent anatomical, physiological, and social challenges. One similarity between genders is that we are both bipeds that is, 2-legged mammals and as such, we tend to

Are You Getting Enough Calcium? This essential mineral is key to bone health and much more. Learn how to keep your calcium stores strong. If you count on dairy for bone-supporting calcium, chalk it up to compelling advertising. Remember the long-running “Got Milk?” campaign and the “Milk. It does a body good.” commercials? Thanks to more than 30 years of industry-funded marketing efforts like these, we’ve repeatedly heard the message

Insomnia: What to Do When You Can’t Sleep There are few things worse than spending your nights tossing and turning. Whether it’s anxiety about work, stress about financial woes or just plain insomnia, when you can’t sleep, the repercussions are more serious than just feeling drowsy the next day. Sleep is one of the most important things you can do to keep your body healthy. In fact, according to a

Coping with Knee Pain First, let it be known to all that I am not a doctor or even close to a qualified medical expert. What I am offering here are some tips for coping with knee pain from someone who has lived with a bone-on-bone arthritic condition in her left knee for the last four years. Yes, I have put off the inevitable knee replacement surgery hoping for a

How Much Exercise Prevents Depression? Add depression prevention to the growing list of ways that exercise can be an effective form of depression treatment. A newly-released study finds a direct link between staying active and recovering from mild to severe depression. And the good news, it doesn’t take hours at the gym to achieve this result! Depression After 50 Mood disorders have a way of catching people off guard after