Guest Blog by Pam Holland, President of TechMoxie
 
It is troubling enough to need a repair when we aren’t in the middle of a quarantine. It is extra challenging to manage repairing, or even replacing, a device while trying to maintain social distance.
Here are some tips if you are trying to decide whether to repair or replace:

Did you know that 90 percent of lower back pain has no known structural or physiologic cause? In the United States, over 70 percent of the population will experience lower back pain at some point.
Despite these challenges, it has been proven that increasing movement frequency throughout the day will decrease the likelihood of experiencing lower back pain. Movement provides nutrition to discs that exist between each vertebra and helps to make the spine resilient to injury.

One easy way to add more movement is to incorporate short bouts of walking to interrupt prolonged periods of immobility, such as when working for extended periods of time. Even if it is too cold to get outside, a simple 5-minute walk around the house can do the trick!

​A message from Dr. Zachary Cohen PT, DPT, CSCS, Owner of Cohen Health and Performance, and a member of the Health and Wellness Committee of the Greater Bethesda Chamber of Commerce. For more information, contact Dr. Cohen at zacharyc@cohenhealth.com or visit Cohen Health and Performance’s website www.cohenhp.com

​​This is my first report and I will start by expressing my gratitude and appreciation for the professional relationship I have had with Ginanne Italiano.  For years, Ginanne has inspired me to learn, engage and advance my own career and I couldn’t be more pleased to have been named the new President and CEO of the Greater Bethesda Chamber of Commerce.  Ginanne will be missed in the day-to-day operations, but has graciously accepted a new role to help us through the 2021 legislative session representing the Chamber’s advocacy initiatives.

The world has changed dramatically over the past 9 months, and your Chamber will be launching new benefits designed to directly assist you and the community as we continue to stay relevant in these uncertain times.
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It's a brand-new day for the Chamber and I’m thrilled that you are here with us.

As the year wraps up and we turn our attention to family, I wanted to send a note of thanks to and FOR each of you.
 
As I reflect on this past year, I can list a million challenges that we had to face.  COVID!!! Job losses; restaurant closings; business losses; children in school, not in school, in virtual school; families separated; the discrimination; the craziness of the election; the loss of loved ones…. The list goes on and on. It is 2020 after all!
 
But, as I watched my children excitedly flip the countdown calendar to Santa’s arrival, I realized that so much good has come out of this year. It would take far too long for me to list it all, but there are a few things that I want to bring to your attention.