Our busy and hectic lives
Stress!!
As we all know, stress isn’t great and everyone in the world goes through it at varying points throughout their lives.
Stress can be anything from a GCSE exam through to trying to find a job or just trying to work out where you are going with your life.
Stress can have varying impacts on your body and not least when you are trying to recover from an injury.
Multiple studies have been conducted over the years and have found that stress from various elements can dramatically slow the healing process.
For example carers who were stressed caring for dementia patients were found to take 24% longer (9days!) to heal from a biopsy.
Moving onto exams, dental students also had a biopsy taken, the students who had the biopsy taken during exams took 40% longer to heal than the students who had the same biopsy taken during holiday time.
Lastly in older men and women, when they were stressed, anxious or depressed this caused a longer healing time than the ones who weren’t the above healed at a much quick rate.
Tips to help stress – taken from the NHS website on stress- Link below
1. Look for the positives in life- be grateful for what you have and not you don’t (glass half full)
2. Accept you’ll always have jobs to do, prioritise your work load from most important to least.
3. Have a bit of me time, this is where you take time out just to do something for you, be that a hobby of yours through to a relaxing massage.
These are just a few examples to help reduce stress!
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/Pages/reduce-stress.aspx
Christian, L. M., Graham, J. E., Padgett, D. A., Glaser, R., & Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K. (2007). Stress and wound healing. Neuroimmunomodulation, 13(5-6), 337-346.