Heading toward year-end, people unknowingly tense up against the cold and busyness, causing neck pain that can often be treated with appropriate support and gentle mobility, athletic therapist Kathlyn Hossack says.
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Gentle treatments for pain in the neck
Fit to Farm: Built-up tensions come compliments of the season
In times of mandatory joy, try to find contentment
Farm Family Coach: We can’t force it to be the most wonderful time of the year for everyone
If we’re not feeling the joy at a time of year that seems to insist on over-the-top moments of happiness, we can allow ourselves to just try for fulfilled or content, farm family coach Kalynn Spain suggests.
Cancer agency reclassifies another herbicide ‘probably carcinogenic’
Syngenta says IARC’s report shows no ‘causal link’ between atrazine and cancer
The WHO’s cancer research agency has now put atrazine, a herbicide well known to corn growers, in the same potential-hazard category where the agency put glyphosate.
Health hazards are often overlooked risks on the farm
Aspects of the farming environment can pile up against your health over time, without proper protections
While quite different from the dangers posed by farm machinery, hazards such as loud noise or sun exposure require the same proactive attention, the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association says.
Run the farm with its people in mind
Farm Family Coach: Developing skills in HR management is especially valuable on farms with employees or a multi-generational workforce
Learning the human resources side of management and leadership is particularly helpful if your farm business has employees or a multi-generational workforce, farm family coach Lydia Carpenter writes.
What’s the best form of exercise?
Fit to Farm: We benefit from some form of resistance training at all levels of our biology, through our daily chores or otherwise
For farmers at any season of life, it’s more important to find ways of exercising that feel practical and attainable, rather than force yourself through some form of exercise that simply doesn’t fit or feel good, athletic therapist Kathlyn Hossack writes.
The issue with scar tissue
Fit to Farm: Left to form unattended, a scar may inhibit your range of motion
Without a healthy amount of movement, friction and influence during the healing process, scar tissue may later disrupt how the body moves around it, so maintenance is needed as soon as an incision or wound heals over, Kathlyn Hossack writes.
Simple ways to relieve tension
Fit to Farm: Expectations of stress tee up the body’s tension response — which then sometimes sticks around longer than we need
Farmers and farm workers will often feel tension in their muscles, whether it’s from physical exertion, stress, or even changes in the weather — and treatment of tension can start simple at home.
Toolkits help bridge gap in farmer mental health
Ag Safety: In ag emergency preparedness, mental health outcomes often are overlooked
Efforts to rebuild and repair farms tend to take centre stage following a crisis, but the mental health aspects of such events often inadvertently wind up on the back burner, hence a new resource kit for farmer use.
The glimmer of hope after a loss
Eppich News: The deaths of two people and one animal bring life into perspective
The unexpected loss of a prized stallion and the loss of two relatives — one who lived a long life, and the other taken too soon — results in reflection by rancher Heather Eppich.
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