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Fight or Flight vs Rest and Digest: How Your Nervous System Responds to Stress
Fight or Flight vs Rest and Digest: How Your Nervous System Responds to Stress When we face a challenge or perceived threat, the body responds by adjusting heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, energy availability and hormone release. These changes involve systems including the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis (O’Connor, Thayer and Vedhara, 2021). This stress response is normal and protective, helping us respond to what is happ
4 days ago4 min read
How Stress, Sleep & the Nervous System Influence Ongoing Pain
Pain is not always determined by tissue damage alone. While an injury or physical irritation can initially trigger pain, the experience of pain is influenced by a range of factors, including stress, sleep, movement and the way the nervous system processes information. This becomes particularly relevant when pain continues beyond the expected healing period or fluctuates without an obvious change in the original injury. Ongoing pain is real, but it does not necessarily mean th
Sep 23 min read
Feeling overwhelmed? How massage can help with stress and anxiety
Anxiety is one of the most common mental health problems facing Australians today. One in three women and one in five men will experience...
Oct 30, 20233 min read
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