Health Blog Category: Nutrition
Essential Nutrients To Promote Brain Function
Have you been dealing with mental fog and difficulty concentrating? Do you find it challenging to keep your energy up at work? You may have a nutrition problem, and adding the proper nutrients can make all the difference!
At Total Care Physical Therapy in Hillsborough, NJ,, our physical therapists will provide you with all the tools you need to function at your highest potential, eat healthier, and live a healthy life. Our physical therapists are musculoskeletal experts, so we are highly trained in all components of health and well-being, including proper nutrition.
Read full blogAre You Constantly In Pain? It May Be Time To Change Your Diet
Inflammation is a natural process the body uses to protect itself and promote healing. During the inflammation process, your body increases its production of white blood cells. Chronic inflammation, however, can damage the body.
Living with continual inflammation can cause pain, swelling, and redness in the affected areas. It can also increase your risk of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and stroke. There are several ways you can improve your nutrition and decrease pain and inflammation, however.
Read full blogIf You Don’t Think Nutrition Has an Effect on Your Aches and Pains, Think Again.
Are Your Dietary Choices Making You Hurt?
Some people eat to live, others live to eat — and still, others are feeding their chronic aches and pains without even realizing it. If your pain issues have gotten steadily worse, maybe you need to look at your nutritional choices. Eating too much and/or eating the wrong things can fire up your inflammatory responses and contribute to muscle, nerve, or joint pain. Fortunately, you can reverse this trend by adopting a healthy nutritional strategy as part of a holistic physical therapy program.
Read full blogReduce Pain and Inflammation Through Nutrition
Internal inflammation can wreak havoc with your health. You may already be seeing a physical therapist for inflammation-related health issues, such as arthritis. Whether you have a specific diagnosis or generalized pain in your back and joints, Total Care Physical Therapy PC in Hillsborough, NJ can help. Your physical therapist may also suggest an anti-inflammatory diet for additional pain relief.
What to Avoid
One of the quickest way to reverse nutrition-based inflammation is to stop eating the foods most associated with it.
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