Bruises are an inevitable part of life, but they can also be painful and unsightly. Here’s what you can do to reduce the pain and encourage faster fading. You’ve had a bump, blow, or knock to your ...

Salt doesn’t just make food taste good—it’s extremely useful around the house for a variety of purposes, one of which is an old-fashioned remedy to soothe a sore throat. “Gargling with salt water when ...

Counteract all that slouching, slumping and even (brace yourself) aging by improving your flexibility and range of motion. Plus, learn the benefits of stretching for seniors. Everyone knew Christine ...

From stretches to workplace ergonomics to electrical stimulation (yep), these self-care tips should help you find sweet relief. Whether it’s a shooting pain or a dull ache, neck pain is extremely ...

Stretching out stiff and achy muscles after you wake up in the morning or in the middle of the workday is a great way to release tension throughout your body. While a lot of people stretch simply ...

When your legs are feeling tight, use these quad stretches to help loosen them up. Your quads, or quadriceps femoris muscle group, are four separate muscles that run along the front of your thigh ...

Stretching is fundamental to living a healthy life. Exercise is usually the focus when we talk about fitness, but stretching is equally important. According to Jennifer Atoapoma, a Montreal-based ...

Keep your body limber and supple at any age with these full-body stretches. Plus, learn the benefits of stretching as you grow older. We all like to joke about our aching, aging bones and the way our ...

If you spend most of your day sitting, use these expert-recommended hip flexor stretches to alleviate low back pain and hip tension. If your day can pretty much be summed up as time shuffled between ...

The pain started in waves in my lower back and travelled down my left thigh as I worked bent over my laptop on my couch—the pandemic years had crystallized bad habits. The uncomfortable tightness ...

You can probably find most of these in your home already. A yeast infection occurs when there’s an overgrowth of the fungus Candida albicans in your vagina. While it naturally lives there, too much of ...

Many of us fall back on folk medicine remedies for ailments, whether they’re proven to be effective or not. We asked editors at some of our Reader’s Digest editions around the world to share those ...