A healthy body and a sound mind
Getting into a car accident is never a pleasant experience. It can cause serious injuries that impact your life for years to come. Beyond physical damage, a car accident can also take its toll mentally.
Take a look at some of the most common after-effects of car accidents and what you can do about them.
[Read more…]Whether you’re escaping from the heat in the summer or trying to warm up in a tropical location over the winter months, taking a beach vacation can be a great way to relax your body and your mind. But although all this relaxation might be good for your health, you should also be aware that spending time at the beach can be dangerous as well, especially if you become injured in some way.
To help keep this type of thing from happening to you, here are three ways to protect your health and avoid injuries while you’re on a beach vacation.
[Read more…]Aside from the occasional fender bender, getting into a car accident can lead to serious injury and even death. Even if you believe that you only sustained minor injuries, they can develop into something much worse over the course of a few days.
That’s why it’s imperative that you see a doctor as soon as possible following a car accident. You may not realize that the damages you experienced during the car accident may haunt you for a long time to come. Here are some of the most common long term impacts of car accidents.
Every year, there are several thousand car accidents. They include the young teenager just learning how to drive all the way to the elderly patron who’s been driving for decades. There are an increasing number of things to distract us from the road from the radio to eating, GPS, and the cell phones that we all swear we don’t use while we are driving. Unfortunately, several of these accidents are fatal and destroy families, taking away moms and dads and sometimes, our children. Below are three tips that may prevent you from experiencing this catastrophe. [Read more…]
What’s typically going to be part of your wellness routine? Basic nutrition. Check. Exercise. Check. Laundry. Housekeeping. But what about – your car? If you have a car, and you do any driving at all, then putting it on your wellness list makes sense, because if you’re not safe in your vehicle, what does all that other stuff matter!
So follow some back to school tips this year for your car, and then add your wheels into your wellness schedule with cleaning, paying attention to recall notices, prepping for bad weather conditions, and keeping a road safety kit handy at all times. Safety and health first, in all aspects of your life!
Back To School Tips
For students, back to school car safety tips are going to be one of your first wellness orders. If you’re on the college warpath, you know that you’re going to be fighting for parking spots, avoiding road rage during athletic events on campus, and keeping away from local security. As much for mental wellness as physical safety, keep that car in perfect working order.
Scheduled Cleaning Advice
Want to avoid getting sick as much as possible? Keep your car in the cleaning mix. Don’t leave food sitting in the back seat. Don’t let cups of soda mold and rot in the cupholders in the back. Seriously, stick to a car cleaning schedule, and not only will you make sure a rotting banana doesn’t gross you out, you’ll look more put together to your friends that op a ride with you to the next event down the road.
Paying Attention To Recall Notices
Want to stay healthy? Then you probably don’t want your airbag malfunctioning in your car. Or breaks to go out. Or other known mechanical issues to pop up. So pay attention to recall notices. They could, quite realistically, save your life. Stuff that cars get recalled for can malfunction even at strange times when you’ve done nothing wrong, so keep up on those lists regularly.
Prepping For Bad Weather Conditions
In lots of different places in the country, different seasons mean different kinds of bad driving weather. And whether than means repairing or replacing windshield wipers, or keeping snow chains handy, the more prepped you are, the better off you’ll be.
Keeping a Safety Kit With You
And in addition to having your bad weather gear handy, it’s not a bad idea to make sure that you have a car safety kit around as well. They aren’t very expensive, but have basic first aid stuff in them typically, as well as jumper cables, and sometimes even road cones in case you have to pull off somewhere and want to make sure people see you there and avoid you.
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