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Are You Making Pain Treatment Mistakes?

Are You Making Pain Treatment Mistakes?

When chronic pain just doesn’t seem to want to go away, you may need to rethink your treatment approach and make sure that you are not making some of the common treatment mistakes.  Living with pain can be challenging both physically and mentally, but coping with pain can become easier if you take specific steps …

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Exercise Errors

Exercise Errors

Article courtesy of : Nicholas DiNubile MD “I’m a gym member. I try to go four times a week, but I’ve missed the last… twelve hundred times.” ~ Matthew Perry as Chandler on the TV show “Friends” Many people are looking ahead to getting back in shape, or staying in shape, through the weeks of …

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Meditation May Help You Make Fewer Mistakes

Meditation May Help You Make Fewer Mistakes

A recent study published in Brain Sciences from Michigan State University suggests that if you are forgetful or make mistakes when you are in a rush meditation may help you to become less error prone, finding that meditation altered brain activity in a way that suggests increased error recognition. The study tested how open monitoring …

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Distractions Raise Work-Related Errors

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The shortest of interruptions, such as glancing at a text message, can cause workers to make mistakes while performing a task. While brief interruptions — such as reading an email or colleagues knocking at the door — are common in workplace, these can be cause for errors that may compromise health and safety.  Erik Altmann, …

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