Stress

What is stress?

When our brain perceives a situation as threatening or uncomfortable it usually reacts to survive or overcome that situation. This physiological reaction is called stress and it is a natural and necessary response. However, when the mechanisms that cause stress remain over time the person suffers an excess of tension and alertness. Too much alertness levels in the day to day causes our nervous, immune and endocrine systems to become exhausted and it causes illnesses and pathological abnormalities that prevent the organism from working properly. Currently, the main stress factors are associated to psychological or emotional aspects, and many times are related to family or working issues. 

What are the symptoms of stress?

• Abdominal pain.
• Headache.
• Muscle pain or tensed muscles.
• Increased heart rate.
• Sweating.
• Tremors.
• Dizziness.
• Frequent need to urinate
• Dry mouth
• Trouble swallowing
• Trouble concentrating
• Feeling very tired.
• Frequently loosing the temper 
• Insomnia.

How to fight stress?

Managing tension in stressing situations is essential to recover the patient’s health. In Clínica Omega Zeta we know how important is to reduce stress in order to restore health and how hard it is to fight it. That is why we develop personalized stress management programs and we approach the problem in a physical, emotional, nutritional way, together with relaxation exercises. In this way, patients feel more prepared to face the environment demands, and prevent stress symptoms, facing and reducing its consequences.

Stress and Integrative medicine

Integrative medicine is a medical approach that combines conventional medicine therapies and alternative or complementary medicine that have been scientifically validated. This holistic approach of integrative medicine considers the human being as a whole in which mind, body and spirit interact and a change in one of the three areas affect the other two.  In stress this relation is even more obvious because although it originates in the brain its effects concern the physical, emotional and mental areas of a person. To reduce or get rid of stress requires taking care of each one of these areas in order to recover balance and health.

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