“My eyes are always tired” …“My eyes hurt” …“I’m having a hard time focusing” …“My eyes feel dry and irritated” …“Things look blurry” High amounts of screen time cause the body to give us vision—and quite often posture-related—feedback clues. It can also impact thinking and mood. Let’s focus on the visual system, because clues in …
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By Roger Jahnke, OMD “The most profound medicine is produced naturally—in the human body—for free!” This phrase, from The Healer Within, is the innovative foundation of a profound personalized peak performance and personal vitality system. There are many ways to turn on (activate, create, maximize) this miraculous internal medicine. By enhancing wellbeing and function capacity, …
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Once you complete your training for a career as a massage therapist, you might think the hard part is done. The truth is you still have to put your new skills to work, which means learning how to market yourself. Job interviews allow you and your future employer to assess how well your talents match their …
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If you’re passionate about helping people and want a rewarding career with good job security, consider massage therapy. With decent income potential, demand, and intrinsic rewards, it just might be the right fit for your needs. Is Massage Therapy a Good Career? A career as a massage therapist is rewarding in many ways. Not only …
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In traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture is a treatment for regulating the flow of energy or life force — known as chi or qi (pronounced “chee”) — thought to flow via channels (meridians) throughout your body. Acupuncture practitioners believe you can rebalance your energy flow by placing needles into specific spots along these meridians. Western practitioners …
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We’ve completed the roundup: Pacific College campuses in San Diego, New York, and Chicago combined provided more than 9,000 hours of intern, faculty, and administrative hours with an in-kind donation of more than $200,000 of free or low-cost treatments and administrative costs to our communities during this year of the pandemic. Pacific College proudly collaborates …
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There are many public health-related educational programs, certificates, and degrees available, so finding the one you want to pursue can be difficult. Two of these that you should know the difference between are public health administration and public health education. Classes and courses may overlap in these two programs, but they are not identical. Here’s what you …
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Why become a nurse? It’s a question many students face when considering this profession. If you were to ask a nurse what they love about the job, chances are you’d get a different answer from each of them. There are many benefits to a career in nursing and many reasons that it is the right …
How are nurses portrayed on TV? A little more realistically than the 1950s when they were stereotyped females in white hats obeying famous television doctors. The average nurse portrayal in the media is a little more accurate today than it has been in prior decades, but medical shows still sacrifice realism for entertainment value. Grey’s …
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When you walk into the doctor’s office and enter the exam room, the first face that greets you is usually not the doctor: it is a nurse. Nursing is a highly rewarding career path for people who are interested in working in the healthcare system, but who do not want to pursue a career as …
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