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It wasn’t exactly a pleasant Christmas present a car accident on Boxing Day a few years ago left me with chronic neck pain. I had tense shoulder, neck and jaw muscles to begin with, but the accident made things worse, and made it difficult to turn my head all the way to the left. I’ve seen physiotherapists, chiropractors and massage therapists, and, while I always leave the appointments feeling looser and less sore, the pain and loss of mobility slowly returns.
Then a couple of months ago I noticed I was waking up to an extremely stiff and sore neck which was new. (Previously the pain and stiffness usually got worse as the day went on.) Was it the tension from having my kids home doing online schooling? Or the dining room chair I was working at, which clearly didn’t have enough back support? Was I clenching my jaw again, even though I was dutifully wearing my mouth
WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK
Republican Counterproposal. Senate Republicans are crafting a counter-proposal as an alternative to President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan (AJP). The package is expected to cost around $600 to $800 billion and consist only of “traditional” infrastructure projects like highways, roads and bridges. When exactly the proposal will be introduced is unclear, but its contents will continue to develop this week.
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White House Infrastructure Meeting. President Biden continued his push to gain support from lawmakers for his infrastructure proposal. Yesterday, he held the second in a series of meetings on the plan, this time with lawmakers that previously served as state or local government officials.
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Johns Hopkins Medicine Collaborates with City and Faith Organizations to Offer Guidance on Safely Reopening Houses of Worship
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Johns Hopkins Medicine is collaborating with Mayor Brandon M. Scott and the Baltimore City Health Department to advise houses of worship on how to reopen safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. The program will include opportunities for faith institutions to pair with health professionals to receive individualized guidance on how to create health and safety protocols to protect congregants and staff.
The partnership, announced on April 26, will involve two components: a virtual educational session and one-on-one guidance to help Baltimore faith institutions comply with the City’s public health mandates, learn about best practices and receive resources.
You may have heard about melatonin. This naturally occurring hormone is credited with everything from keeping your internal clock on track and helping you catch some ZZZs to reducing jet lag and easing anxiety about surgery.
Your body already makes melatonin, but sometimes, it doesn’t make enough of it. “Melatonin is secreted in darkness,” says Jennifer Martin, Ph.D., professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles and a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Board of Directors. “When we’re exposed to light, it turns off melatonin production.”
Your melatonin levels aren’t static over the course of your life they change as you age. “In young people, there’s no melatonin production during the day and levels are very high at night, so it s almost like an on-off switch,” Martin says. “As people age, there s more of a gradual increase and a gradual decline, and the peak levels of melatonin aren t quite so high.”
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