STRESS

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STRESS HEALTHLecture Outline

• Define stress
• Identify sources
• Stress and illness
• Signs and symptoms
• Body systems affected
• Importance of diet, exercise, sleep in relation
  to stress

• Time management
• Stress reduction techniques
• Meditation
• Biofeedback
• Progressive relaxation
• Yoga autogenic

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A Biological Response

• Stress is a biological response to the demands
  made
• upon an individual
• It is a challenge to the bodies inner balance

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Stress is the combination of a stressor and our
response to it.
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Stress is caused by stressors, or demands that
require us to adapt.
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How the body reacts to stress

• When the body becomes stressed the balance is
  disrupted
• The body goes through an adaptive response to get
  balanced.

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In the Cardiovascular System

• Increased heart rate
• Damage to blood vessels
• Raises in levels cholesterol

• In the Immune system
• Suppresses the ability to produce and maintain
  lymphocytes and killer cells
• 2. Impaired interferon levels and organs such as
  the thymus

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HOW DO YOU DEFINE STRESS?

• Any Psychological or Emotional Response
• to any stimulus
• that disturbs
• a persons
• homeostasis or balance

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Stress Hormones Affect Body

• Alarm..Resistance.Recovery
• This fight or flight response can impair specific
  body systems
• Less saliva is produced
• Rhythmic contractions of the esophagus are
  disrupted
• Stomach slows down
• Liver releases glucose
• Pancreas can become chronically inflamed

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Stressor
Release of Catecholamine's From the adrenal glands
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What stresses one person may not stress another

• Stressors can be
• 1. Physical
• 2. Emotional
• 3. Social
• 4. Intellectual
• 5. Spiritual

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STRESSORSThe physical or psychological event or
condition that produces stress

• What are your stressors?

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Relationship Between Stress and Health and
Performance
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The American Institute of Stress
INTERNAL SENSE OF BALANCE
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Coping with Stress

• Know your limitations
• Dont try to control every situation
• Respect other cultures
• Visualize a successful response to a situation
• Respect and take care of your body and health

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Coping with Stress

• Can a person develop a stress resistant
  personality?
• Build better social support thru meaningful
  relationships
• Contribute to your family community
• Have high expectations for yourselves
• Build life skills decision making,
  communication, stress and conflict management

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Lets see what happens-with Biofeedback
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STRESS MANAGEMENTWhat is biofeedback?Biofeedba
ck is a technique in which people are trained to
improve their health by learning to control
certain internal bodily processes that normally
occur involuntarily, such as heart rate blood
pressure, muscle tension, and skin temperature.
School of Biofeedback
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These activities can be measured with electrodes
and displayed on a monitor that both the
participant and his or her practitioner can see.
The monitor provides feedback to the participant
about the internal workings of his or her body.
This person can then be taught to use this
information to gain control over these
"involuntary" activities. Biofeedback is an
effective therapy for many conditions, but it is
primarily used to treat high blood pressure,
tension headache, migraine headache, chronic
pain, and urinary incontinence.
These activities can be measured with
electrodes and displayed on a monitor that both
the participant and his or her practitioner can
see. The monitor provides feedback to the
participant about the internal workings of his or
her body. This person can then be taught to use
this information to gain control over these
"involuntary" activities. Biofeedback is an
effective therapy for many conditions, but it is
primarily used to treat high blood pressure,
tension headache, migraine headache, chronic
pain, and urinary incontinence.
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MASSAGE IS HELPFUL
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Release your Stress

• YOGA

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The study of Psychoneuroimmunology

• The relationship between stress and disease
• Study of the interactions among the nervous
  system, the endocrine system, and the immune
  system
• Stress through the actions of the nervous and
  endocrine systems, impairs the immune system and
  thereby affects health

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PNI

• Increased levels of cortisol are linked to a
  decreased number of immune system cells or
  lymphocytes.
• Scientists believe hormone like substances called
  neuropeptides appear to translate stressful
  emotions into biochemical events

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PNI

• Stressors that are acute have no overall effect
  on immune function, but chronic stress may have a
  negative effect.
• Mood, personality, behavior, and immune
  functioning are intertwined.
• Positivity may enhance immunity