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Good posture decreases back pain by reducing strain on your muscle.

Protect your back while you stand or turn. Turning can twist your spine if you don't do it correctly.

Use these tips to help sit safely after you have hip replacement surgery.

Smoking damages your lungs and makes it harder to breathe. Read on for helpful tips and information on quitting.

After surgery, there are steps you can take to help with your recovery. You may have been an inpatient (staying in the hospital overnight) or an outpatient (going home the day of surgery). While in the hospital, it is important to follow directions from your surgeon, nurse, and other health care providers.

Dysphagia is difficulty getting food from the mouth to the stomach safely. With the direction of a licensed speech-language pathologist, these exercises may help strengthen and increase movement in the face muscles. This can make eating food safer and easier.

If you recently had a heart attack or heart surgery, you may be worried about your love life. This is normal during an illness. But know that you can still enjoy sex. Here is information that can help you understand your feelings and help you work with your partner to rebuild intimacy.

An intimate relationship is built on being able to share feelings. The stress and worry of a heart attack or surgery can upset this closeness.

To help you listen to each other’s feelings, you might try this “talker and listener” approach. First, one person is the talker and the other is the listener. Then you change roles.