1% Thursday: Take a walk in the evening
This week, try taking a short, brisk walk in the evenings.
Exercise itself is a major help for people with headache and migraine. Simply walking regularly may indeed make a huge impact on your life – you may be surprised!
This article by Cindy Brotherston, CFT of www.Busywomensfitness.com is a great testimonial of someone who suffered from migraine and found what exercise could do – read it on our Headache and exercise page.
But I’m not just suggesting you get more exercise. Getting up and about during the day may also help you sleep better at night – which can make a significant difference when it comes to many types of headache disorders. This recent research on sleep apnea gives us another reason to go for walks.
Walking also gets you away from the normal stresses of life, gives you a change, and does all kinds of great things for your body. Try it this week – and maybe longer!
What is 1% Thursday?
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Every Thursday at Headache and Migraine News (weather permitting) we’ll talk about one measurable, practical thing we can do to make our lives just 1% better. Usually it will be something very easy, sometimes it will be a challenge. Let us know if you try it, or share an idea of your own – and maybe a year from now we’ll see that things have really changed for the better!
18 June 2009 @ 3:33 pm
Great tip, James! I think walking four or five nights plus yoga at least once a week has helped me feel better, and I know it’s good for my health all the way around. Of course, I don’t exert much if I have a migraine and often can’t participate at all – then I just postpone until I can.
Also I’ve discovered that for me, feeling better can be just a matter of breathing (or not breathing shallowly or unintentionally holding my breath), as silly as that sounds. When you intentionally breathe as during yoga or while walking at a good pace, you can’t very easily hold your breath and you get that much needed oxygen to your brain!
23 June 2009 @ 1:19 pm
The breathing thing doesn’t sound silly at all – it’s actually very important. A good topic for another article! 🙂