Understanding and managing stress

A great piece on stress management from Craig Hospital in Colorado:

It could be a traffic jam, or a busy airport. It could be at school or on the job. Wherever your look, you can see signs of stress and tension. Stress is everywhere in our society, and there’s a lot of evidence that it affects our health.

Stress and Spinal Cord Injury
Many people believe that having a spinal cord injury must be extremely stressful. While no one knows this for sure, some recent research is helping us find answers to this question.

One group that was studied was made up of almost 200 British spinal cord injury (SCI) survivors between the ages of 34 and 74 and injured more than 20 years. They were followed for six years, and the stress they reported was compared with their medical diagnoses, their other health problems, their levels of physical and emotional function, and their involvement in their communities.

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