When the school year ends and the weather gets warmer, many people’s thoughts turn to travel. Whether your vacation involves a road trip, a cruise or a long-distance flight, follow these tips to stay healthy while away from home.
Maybe you left the sunscreen at home. Or maybe you went for a swim and didn’t reapply it. Or—a common oversight—you didn’t realize how long you were working in the garden.
Well, the yard looks great but you ended up with a bad sunburn!
These tips and remedies from the Skin Cancer Foundation can help ease the pain and speed healing. Drape a cool, damp towel around your pink shoulders and read on:
During the summer months, many parents search online for tips to prevent drowning in backyard pools. But lakes, rivers and open water present additional risks that pools don’t have. Safe Kids Worldwide offers tips to prepare your family for them before packing for vacation.
For many of us, the holiday means fun times with family and friends, grilling out and fireworks, of course. But because of that last one, Independence Day is also considered one of the most dangerous holidays of the year.
At any hospital, healing begins with medical treatment. For many patients at Carilion Clinic, it continues through artistic expression.
Since 2012, Carilion’s Dr. Robert L.A. Keeley Healing Arts Program has integrated literary, performing and visual art experiences into the healing process. The program’s many initiatives include:
Work-related injuries result more often from repetitive strain than from a single incident
Correct posture and proper ergonomics can help prevent injury
These tips are part of the training that Carilion Clinic employees take every year
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Every day, we move in ways that put us at risk of a back injury. In just a second, we might hurt ourselves by lifting a heavy object the wrong way, or trip and fall.
Your life is probably hectic. We all juggle an enormous number of competing priorities, from time with family and friends to commitments at work and school.
Not to mention trying to fit in time for exercise, meal planning and a good night’s sleep.
Sometimes it feels like there just aren’t enough hours in the day for everything that "needs" to get done.
The benefits of mindfulness are well-known, and at Roanoke City Public Schools (RCPS), they want to get kids started early on a path to mindful living.
A 2019 pilot program at an RCPS elementary school included a short guided meditation as part of the morning announcements, led by Laurie Seidel, M.S.N., a nurse educator in Carilion Clinic’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine.
