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Holiday Stress and Recovering from Injury

Factual: Health & Wellbeing

11/07/2016

BBC Radio Scotland - Personal Best, Holiday Stress and Recovering from Injury

How to avoid holiday stress, recovering from injury, and the 'no complaining' challenge.

Susie Greaves talks about avoiding pre-holiday stress, plus Paralympic cyclist Karen Darke discusses recovering from injury while physiotherapist Mandy Belch offers advice.

Holiday Stress: School's out but how do you cope with holiday stress? In theory we go on holiday to relax and unwind so why do we often end up more stressed by the packing, organising, travelling and keeping everyone happy? Susie Greaves from Psychologies Magazine tells Gillian Russell about the impact this pre-holiday stress can have on our health and advises on how best we can avoid it. 

Road To Rio Audio Diary: Paralympic cyclist Karen Darke talks about the challenges of recovering from injury and the impact this has had on both her training schedule and how she personally deals with setbacks.

Recovering From Injury: Like Karen, we probably all have to deal with injury or illness at some point but just how important is it to listen to your body and not rush back to exercise too soon? Mandy Belch, senior physiotherapist from Sport Scotland's Institute Of Sport, offers advice on what to do, what to avoid and how we can learn to be a little more patient with our bodies.

Stop Complaining Challenge: The simple act of not verbalising a negative comment has an impact on mind + body and stopping moaning is one of the simplest ways to develop a positive mind-set. Last week we set a challenge - no complaining or moaning for 7 days - so today we'll find out whether comedian and Personal Best volunteer Stuart Mitchell has succeeded or not...

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