Three Reasons Why Walking at the Custer Arts & Crafts Show Is Healthy

To keep your heart and the rest of your body healthy, medical researchers recommend that adults walk at least 10,000 steps per day. You do not have to walk quickly or run in order to achieve an ideal level of physical fitness; even just walking while browsing at the Custer Arts & Crafts festival this spring is a great way to get in some of those steps. With these tips from providers at a Spokane Valley urgent care center, you can help to keep your heart and your spirit healthy. Weight Maintenance Slow to moderate paced walking helps to maintain your weight. Walking is a weight-bearing exercise, which forces your muscles and bones to be strong. Exercising your muscles helps to burn more calories. Walking at a pace of about 3 miles per hour, such as if you would walk through the grocery store, burns around 200 calories per hour for a 180-pound adult.
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Urgent Care Providers Share Prevention Tips for These Winter Illnesses

Your health is your wealth. While it’s important to keep your body in check throughout the entire year, the colder winter months of October through February are common seasonal illness culprits. Nothing hurts the wallet and life’s comforts like spending a few weeks sick on the couch, so it’s absolutely crucial to prevent as many winter illnesses as possible with help from urgent care providers. Fighting the Flu Workplaces and college campuses are notorious for spreading illness such as the flu, reason being that diseases spread quickest in areas where people are highest in concentration. Classrooms, cubicles, and bathrooms are the common hotbeds for influenza due to common face-to-face communication. Flu outbreaks usually occur when droplets of saliva are emitted and then transferred from coughing, sneezing, or even simply talking from person to person. Symptoms include joint pain, dry cough, congestion, and body chills.
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Spokane Valley Urgent Care Watches Out for Bikers

Manito Park is one of the most visited locations in Spokane, Washington. It has wonderful trails that people can bike through, offering nature at its best. With manicured lawns, topiary, walking and biking trails in a peaceful area, and even playgrounds for children, this park has it all. If you are a biker, however, it is important to know how to safely use these trails. The Importance of Helmets Many people choose not to wear helmets when cycling, but there are a number of reasons why this can be the wrong decision. Most statistics point out that the most common injuries when it comes to using a bike are head injuries. Helmets can ensure that the chance of a concussion or a serious blow to the head will not occur.
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Urgent Care Clinics: Tips On What to Do When You Fall Off Your Bike

Road cycling, mountain biking and other related bike activities are highly popular in Spokane Valley, and they are fun, low-impact ways to get plenty of exercise. You may take steps to protect yourself from injury while on your bike, such as by wearing a helmet. Accidents can and do happen, however, to even the safest cyclists and you may have recently had a minor issue that resulted in some scrapes and bruises. Fortunately, there are some steps that you can take to care for yourself after a fall. Here are some tips from urgent care clinics: Self-Care for Minor Scrapes After you get back home, you should assess the damage to see if you need services from a Spokane Valley urgent care facility or if you can care for yourself at home. With most accidents, self-care at home is all that is needed.
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Keep Safety and Urgent Care Needs in Mind when Joining Running Events

If you live in Spokane Valley, love walking or running, and want to show support for victims of domestic abuse, you might be interested in participating in this year’s Stomp Out Abuse Run/Walk. On its 5th year, the event will be held on September 19 starting at the Riverfront Park - divided into 5K Run/Walk and 10K Run categories. Everyone is invited and strollers are welcome, but no pets or bikes are allowed on the race course. As detailed by Athlete Path, a sports site presenting event details and the registration platform, registration fee is at $20; Proceeds of which will be contributed to 15-week free services for domestic abuse victims. Online registration is until September 18 but race-day registration (cash or check only) will be open from 8:00 AM ‘til the pre-race assembly.
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Insect Bites and Urgent Care: What You Should Know About Black Flies

"Seeing flies on your food is disgusting enough; what more if they suck the blood out of you? You heard it right. Not all flies just buzz around, cowardly waiting for a chance to land on your food. Some actually bite and feed on the blood of both humans and animals. One such species that inhabit Spokane’s running streams and rivers are black flies. Black flies typically target the area around the eyes, scalp, and ears, and sometimes exposed arms and legs. According to the Spokane Regional Health District, these parasites tend to crawl into sleeves, neckbands, boot tops, and other areas, particularly the head beneath a hat. In order to suck blood, the black fly (female only) cuts a hole in the skin and injects an anti-coagulant for a smooth feeding. The bites are painful, itchy, and can cause swelling for many days, in which case visiting your local urgent care center in Spokane Valley may provide you relief."
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Barbecue Season in Full Swing! Heed Spokane Valley Urgent Care Tips

Spokane Valley’s barbecue season is in full swing! Have you had your fair share of delectably smoky treats yet? The participants of the Smoke in the Valley BBQ Championship last April surely have, and they kicked off the grilling and roasting season with the best in the city. Some even had the chance to take classes and become certified through a large national barbecue association. Others simply contented themselves to watching the barbecue competition and getting tips from some of the best teams in the country. Of course, you can’t afford to skimp on your health and safety whenever you plan to fire up your grill. You also have to take extra caution whenever you’re hosting barbecue parties in your home and you have several attendees, including kids. Heed these Spokane Valley urgent care tips, so you can prevent illnesses and injury, and have a more enjoyable barbecue season:
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