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Healthy Holidays

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10 Ways to Boost Your Energy During the Winter

Don’t let dark, cold days bring you down. Try these tips to put a little more pep in your step.

Jason Mayerhofer
Physical Therapist

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9 Do’s and Don’ts of Avoiding Holiday Weight Gain

Taking care of your mind and body are as important as what you put on your plate. Try this evergreen advice from HSS weight management specialists.

HSS Nutrition

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Last-Minute Tips to Help You Prepare for Skiing

What you do the week before your first ski trip of the year can help keep you safe on the slopes. Check out these tips from sports and orthopedic physical therapist Yukiko Matsuzaki.

Yukiko Matsuzaki
Physical Therapist

The Lifestyle Medicine Approach to Emotional Well-Being

Lifestyle medicine is an approach to healthcare that integrates six vital “pillars” of good health to treat, reverse, and prevent chronic lifestyle-related diseases. Explore how two of these pillars—stress management and social connectedness—can impact well-being and learn evidence-based strategies to improve your health.

Date: December 14, 2023
Time: 6:30pm - 7:15pm EDT

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In Depth

Neck Pain

All the hunching and scrolling of modern life sets us all up for neck pain. Learn more from HSS experts about how to relieve chronic or sporadic neck pain, sleeping with neck pain, and when it’s time to see a doctor.

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Lifestyle Medicine

What is Lifestyle Medicine?

Heidi Prather - Physiatrist

Strategies for Better Sleep

Heidi Prather - Physiatrist
Rebecca Niitzel - Registered Dietitian

Is Movement Medicine?

Elizabeth Nguyen - Physiatrist
Kelyssa Hall - Exercise Physiologist

Run Better

Yoga Flow Warmup for Runners

Cara Ann Senicola
Certified Yoga Instructor

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How to Get Into (or Back Into) Running

Exercise physiologist and certified running coach Pamela Geisel shares how to start off on the right foot to avoid injury and enjoy the journey.

Pamela Geisel
Exercise Physiologist

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What to Know about Running with Back Pain

If you’re dealing with back pain, it’s possible to continue running safely with a few tweaks to your workout.

Ashleigh McAdam, Physical Therapist
Andrew Paul Creighton, Physiatrist

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Running Back-to-Back Marathons? Try This Training Plan

Planning to run back-to-back races? HSS physical therapist Yukiko Matsuzaki explains what to do between the races to set yourself up for success.

Yukiko Matsuzaki
Physical Therapist

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Yoga for Runners: How to Use Yoga to Improve Your Runs

HSS physical therapist Cara Ann Senicola shares how yoga can help runners improve their performance and offers a quick yoga-based warmup for runners of all levels.

Cara Ann Senicola
Certified Yoga Instructor

How Fit Are You?

Polly de Mille and Pamela Geisel, Exercise Physiologists

Sleep Better

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How to Improve Sleep Quality

Getting high-quality sleep is just as important as the number of hours you spend snoozing.

Heidi Prather
Physiatrist

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5 Things You Should Know about Sleep and Low Back Pain

What’s the best sleep position for low back pain? How much does your mattress matter?

Robert Griffin
Pain Management Physician

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10 Stretches to Do Before Bed to Improve Your Sleep

Stretching at night can help you fall asleep faster and avoid sleep-related pain. HSS physical therapists Anna Ribaudo and Sheena Alva have 10 stretches to try.

Anna Ribaudo
Physical Therapist

Sheena Alva
Physical Therapist