Stress is often associated with negative events. However positive events can cause you to feel stressed as well. Getting a promotion, getting married or buying a new home can be stressful. So can health problems, losing a job or family...
Stressing your body through exercise is not always a bad thing. In fact, it's your body's recovery from stress that improves your health and fitness. Some types of stress can cause you to damage muscles, including your heart. Understanding how...
Academic pressure, deadlines, meeting new people, adjusting to a new living situation or simply juggling the demands of work, school and a social life can easily bring about feelings of stress for many college students. Although many college...
The National Association for Continence (NAFC) estimates that 25 million adult Americans experience transient or chronic urinary incontinence. The most common type of incontinence in women is stress incontinence and is defined as "the involuntary...
The body can't tell the difference between real and perceived threats. Intense feelings of stress over work, arguments, traffic or debt can put the body in a reactive state just as if it were in an actual life and death situation. The more often...
Stress is a mental state where you feel like you are taking on more than you can handle. It can be caused by situations in your family, at work or in the environment. Although stress is a mental or psychological situation, it can have physical...
Most people experience stress with common symptoms like tensed muscles, frequent headaches, sleep disturbances, loss of sex drive and mood swings. But there are many other physiological and psychological consequences to chronically high stress...
The emotional consequences from too much stress and anxiety may range from frustration and anger to worry and fear. These emotions can lead to harmful physical effects that may impair a person's overall health. The symptoms can even result in...
Most cases of stress incontinence are the result of weakened pelvic floor muscles, often because of childbirth. When coughing, sneezing or exercising puts extra pressure on the bladder, small amounts of urine may leak. According to the American...
Your heart is racing, you can feel your face turning red and sweat begins to drip from your head. All of these images evoke feelings of a stressful situation. Exercise is a stressor on the body. However, stress caused by physical activity is a...
Stress and anxiety have the ability to cause many physical health effects because the body responds to the way people feel and act, according to FamilyDoctor.org, the website for the American Academy of Family Physicians. Certain illnesses or...
Stress fractures are small cracks in any of your body's bones, including those in your lower spine. Of the several kinds of stress fractures affecting the lower back, some respond to physical therapy. It’s a natural impulse to tackle your...
Daily emotional stress can come from several sources: inadequate sleep, being overextended at work, emotional exhaustion that can stem from relationships, and a demanding home life, while physical stress can develop from overworking your body....
Your friend wants you to give him a full massage so he can get rid of some of the stress he is feeling. You can massage all areas of his body, concentrating on relieving some of the physical stress and any muscle knots in his back, neck or...
Cortisol is a hormone produced by the human body, designed to help the body deal with mental and physical stress. Also known as the "stress hormone," cortisol increases in the blood rise as an individual feels either physical, emotional or mental...
Running is a high-impact exercise that puts physical stress on your entire body but mostly on your lower body. The large muscles in your thighs, the hamstrings and quadriceps, along with your knees, absorb the impact and can take a beating during...
A woman's menstrual cycle is mostly regulated by her hormones and other involuntary internal processes. Stress, however, can take a toll on a woman's monthly cycle. To maintain a regular cycle, it can help to understand how your emotions impact...
The body's joints are lined with cartilage, which helps protect and cushion them. Sometimes the cartilage gets damaged, either by physical stress or from an abnormal immune response. When this happens, the bones in the joint grind on each other,...
Glutamine is an amino acid that your body uses for growth, your immune system and brain function. Glutamine supplements may have benefits during times of physical stress when glutamine levels can become low. If you are an endurance athlete or...
Potassium is a mineral that acts as an electrolyte in your body. Electrolytes are substances that conduct electricity within your fluids and tissues. Physical stress that creates prolonged or excessive sweating, such as strenuous exercise, can...
The repetitive motion of playing bass guitar can wreak havoc on the muscles and tendons of the hands and wrists. Stretching exercises before and after playing will help increase blood flow and flexibility, and reduce the effects of physical stress...
Cortisol is a hormone produced in your body when it is under stress. It is supposed to help you deal with both mental and physical stress, however it can cause chemical imbalances within your body. Excessive levels of cortisol may elevate your...
According to MentalHealth.com, 70 percent of family doctor visits are because of stress-related health conditions. While stress is a normal physiological and psychological response to internal and external factors, chronic stress increases the...
Stress is your physical and mental response to increasing demands in life. It can be chronic or acute, depending on the situation. Stress can have both positive and negative effects on the body. It can be motivating and cause increased energy, or...
Before you grab your morning cup of coffee, think about the effect it is going to have on your body. You drink it because it is going to help wake you up, maybe even give you some energy, but the caffeine in your coffee is a drug that causes many...
Training and competition places athletes under a great deal of mental and physical stress. Ignoring stress and allowing it to accumulate can be disastrous to athletic progress and performance. Taking the right approach to training frequency, time...
Pulse rate, or heart rate, is measured by beats per minute (BPM). According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), your maximum heart rate, regardless of age, gender or health, is 220 minus your age. Heart rate is used to determine the stress...
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