Mike Dilke This week the RELAXBACK UK show covers the Wellbeing @Work Event – London November 2018. The topic of the conference was mental health. Mental ill health is responsible for 91 million working days lost and costs employers £34.9 billion each year in the UK and business is starting to take this seriously and realises that … Read more
This week the RELAXBACK UK show is all about physiotherapy. It includes speakers, attendees and exhibitors at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Conference 2018 which took place in Birmingham. The first interview is with John Doyle who is lead physiotherapist at Nuffied Health who spoke at the conference about how to prevent sedentary behaviour in … Read more
This week the RELAXBACK UK show talks about the power of placebo and how to get more from your food than just the nutrients it contains. Dr Jeremy Howick is an expert on how and why placebos work. He helped with a BBC2 Horizon progamme so I decided to see if he would talk to me … Read more
A busy Relaxback UK show this week. Mark Macgregor of Philip Morris saying they want people in the UK to give up smoking and a couple of interesting conferences next week. Mark Macgregor is Director of Corporate Affairs, UK and Ireland for Philip Morris and told me that they really want the 7.4 million smokers … Read more
This week the RELAXBACK UK show looks at water for sale that contains CBD from cannabis called Love Hemp Water and also Arthritis Week. Tony Calamita is co-founder of the company Love Hemp. They recently lauched their product Love Hemp Water which contains CDB from the cannabis plant – find out what it does for … Read more
The RELAXBACK UK show this week is all about sleep, what happens if you don’t get enough and some possible help if you need more. I speak with sleep expert Dr Roy Rayman of Sleep Score Labs and he covers a lot of ground on sleep issues and how to try and overcome them. One scary … Read more
This week on the RELAXBACK UK Show I talk to experts on heart valve disease and also give you a snapshot into a recent active holiday – it involves firewalking! Will Woan from the charity Heart Valve Voice and surgeon, Chris Young, give some expert advice on how to ensure heart valve disease gets diagnosed … Read more
This week the RELAXBACK UK show on UK Health Radio explores the roles of an occupational therapist and also looks at how lazy we are compared to working animals in the developing world. Jennie Alexander is an Occupational Therapist and she helps people with all kinds of issues to help go about their daily lives. … Read more
The Relaxback UK Show that is out on Tuesday 21st is all about the Sustainable City Awards 2018. This is a competition organised by The London Sustainability Exchange and the entrants were all of a very high standard. The overall winner was an organisation called Repowering and you can hear Agamemnon Otero, their CEO, on … Read more
Ths week on the RELAXBACK UK Show I talk with Kristen Long about WEGO patient networks and also focus on the Take 2 Minutes to Move Campaign. WEGO has developed a network of patient leaders to help people with many different health issues and I spoke with Kristen about how the system works on UK … Read more