Complementary and Alternative Medicine: What Works?
Physical therapists understand that patients don’t always need pills to get relief. Healing and relaxation are often the result of complementary and alternative medicine. When coupled with approved treatments, alternative medicine like yoga is becoming more mainstream. Think of this blog post as a refresher course on complementary and alternative medicine. While the “cupping craze” might be a passing fad, the following...
Graveyard Shift Survival Guide | Tips For Working Night Shift
We thank you, night owl health workers, for being our nocturnal support system. While it’s not always easy working into the wee hours of the night, your sacrifice does not go unnoticed. Not everyone is cut out for working the night shift. In fact, many of you didn’t have a choice before working at night. With the healthcare industry established as a 24/7 business, nearly 15 million people in the United States work...
High Risks and High Demands | Dialysis Techs and COVID-19
When you step back and take a bird’s eye view of the pandemic, it’s amazing how differently people’s lives are affected. There are young people who are relatively low risk individuals with little worry. Others have office jobs who maybe now have to work from home but are otherwise unaffected. Then there are those who continue to work and go about their lives as if nothing is going on. Some states are on full stay at home order, while...
5 Simple COVID-19 Stress Tips for Healthcare Workers
For professionals in the Allied Health field, we are already prone to a stressful work environment. However, it seems that these recent times are going to make an already stressful job, that much more challenging. So instead of having a broom closet breakdown, here are 5 COVID-19 stress tips to help reduce pandemic-related stress. According to The American Journal of Managed Care (AMJC), “7 in 10 employees indicated in a survey that...
Allied Health and COVID-19 | How is it Affecting Travelers?
The onset of COVID-19 in the United States, almost overnight, drastically changed our routines. The virus shuttered businesses across the country – some forever – and with that paused or eliminated millions of jobs. Healthcare is no exception. Even as some specialties scramble to meet the needs of an increasing amount of critical care, respiratory patients, others can no longer work at all. Allied health and COVID-19 resulted in a...
Adult Swim: 8 Benefits of Water Aerobics
Water aerobics used to be considered a form of exercise strictly reserved for geriatrics or pregnant women. But, in reality, water aerobics can benefit adults as well as children in every background and in a variety of ways. Plus, not all pool exercises are created equal— there are styles based roughly off things like Zumba, yoga, and tai chi. Below we’ll take a look at the many amazing benefits of water aerobics! Benefits...