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Most students experience significant amounts of stress, but with all of the activities and responsibilities that fill a student's schedule, it's sometimes difficult to find the time to try new stress relievers to help dissipate that stress.

At any given point in time, most college students are stressed about something; it's just part of going to school. While having stress in your life is normal and often unavoidable, being stressed is something you can control. Follow these ten tips to learn how to keep your stress in check and how to relax when it gets to be too much.

How to relieve pain, reduce inflammation, and help preserve joint structure and function for patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

The "super 7 exercises are an important part of treatment for tennis elbow. They are designed to strengthen the muscles in the forearm and increase flexibility through stretching. In most cases te these exercises will help relieve elbow pain in about 4 to 6 week Each stretching exercise is held for 15 seconds and repeated 2 or 3 times.

This video is a doctor talking about the signs and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, as well as some of the medications that are taken to help relieve the pain of RA.

Just my style! What a great article! This article talks about the great benefits of knitting and what knitting does to keep your hands healthy by way of function. It's a great workout for your hands, fingers and forearms, but not a strenuous workout. Knitting also is a stress relief activity, can improve your mood, relieves anxiety and depression. I have not tried knitting. I have always cross-stitched. I can tell you, when I finish school, this is definitely on my bucket list, along with learning to paint!

I feel this is a good article to keep in our portfolio of info! It addresses 5 moves to help with tightness or stiffness in the hip muscles! I know I am going to keep this just for my own personal use!

This article gives different ways individuals can protect their joints. It identifies ways to relieve pain, distribute load, do things differently/easier, and different positions used to stabilize joints.

Interesting information and such a proactive treatment for clients at home! Yoga can help to relieve arthritis pain by creating more mobility in the joints and flexibility in the muscles around the joints. While pain should be respected, this article does point out the "use it or lose it" idea. Not to mention the other benefits Yoga would offer, such as deep breathing to reduce stress.

This video provides some explanation about the physiology behind how a TENS unit can relieve pain.

So this is a more broad link but I love it! It shows multiple jokes about stress that should actually make you laugh! It is the middle of the semester now and I feel like we could all use a good laugh and some stress relief! So why not both at the same time?? Just take a look!

If you are a visual person like I am sometimes you just need something simple to look at to reduce your stress. A reminder that it is going to be okay, or just a reminder of something that helps you relieve stress. That is why I love this wordle, I look at it and it instantly helps me to calm down. Try it sometime when you are stressed out!