Avid Sports Medicine Blog
7 Ways to Increase Your Productivity and Efficiency at Work
Increasing your productivity and efficiency at work has incredible benefits for both your work-life balance as well as your professional satisfaction. Being more productive at work can create space for other opportunities, interests, or errands that have been on your wish list for weeks or months!
Training Tips for Becoming a Successful Master’s Athlete
There are many physical changes attributed to the aging process, including declining muscle mass, stiffening arteries,decreased heart output, and less efficient use of oxygen. However, many of the changes that we believe are inevitable, can be reduced by as much as 50% with regular exercise and training.
The Benefits of Interval Training
Interval training is a great way to incorporate exercise as medicine into your busy life. Interval workouts are short bursts of varied movement.
Sitting All Day? How to Deal with Neck and Low Back Pain
One of the many adjustments employees have had to make during the COVID-19 pandemic has been shifting to a work-from-home lifestyle. Accompanying this major lifestyle change, many have experienced neck and lower back pain from sitting for hours in a suboptimal home-office environment.
5 Ways to Deal with Loneliness
Loneliness is an often overlooked and underappreciated challenge of life. The quarantine and isolation of COVID-19 have made loneliness a more frequent and common experience for many. We have 5 easy to implement tips to deal with loneliness.
Dealing with Wrist, Arm, and Hand Pain at Work
Since you may be working in your home office for an extended period of time, a suboptimal setup may leave you dealing with nagging wrist, arm, and hand pain or discomfort. There can be sharp pain and constant aching depending on the position and can even cause fatigue and weakness.
5 Steps to Start a Personal Fitness Program in the New Year
Setting health and fitness goals in the new year isn’t a novel idea, but this year is different. With gyms closed and social distancing still in effect, creating a personal fitness program requires thinking and planning differently. If you are looking to get active in the new year, keep reading for our recommended five steps to successfully begin your own personal fitness program.
Thrive From Home with Avid’s Employee Wellness Solutions
The change in work environment due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a significant adjustment. While many will continue remote work well into the new year, creating a home office, finding time to relax and also staying active can be quite the challenge. However, at Avid Sports Medicine we offer Employee Wellness Solutions to help with all these things and more.
Understanding Neck Pain
Understanding Neck Pain Have you ever woken up with a crick in your neck? Do you carry around tension in your shoulders all day that creates pain in your neck? Neck pain is one of the most common complaints among adults. Up to 10% of the population has neck pain at...
Ergonomics 101 + 5 Hacks You Can’t Ignore
By working from home, you are probably spending a large part of your day in front of a screen or sitting on a table for a longer duration. As a result, you may have observed certain work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) like tendonitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and/or specific back pain. In this post, we will discuss ergonomics, its principle, and a few working hacks that you can implement today!
4 Ways to Adapt to Your New Home Workspace
Finding a space in your home to get meaningful work done can be an environmental and physical challenge. Optimizing the ergonomics of whatever work surfaces and spaces you have at home is important to avoid injuries.
Understanding Low Back Pain
Low Back Pain can be described as pain felt in the lumbar spine which lies just below the thoracic spine and directly above the sacrum. Learn about causes of LPB, activities to try at home and when to seek medical