Braintraining and dementia; Cluster headaches; Cancer rehab; #hellomynameis
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Every three minutes somebody in the UK develops dementia, so when it's claimed that tailored computer brain training can reduce cases of dementia and cognitive decline by a third over a decade, people sit up and take notice. The research claiming the 33% reduction for the group of people whose "processing function" was targeted for brain training, hasn't yet been published - so isn't peer-reviewed - but the preliminary data by a US team was presented to the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Toronto this week. Dr Doug Brown, Director of R&D at the UK's Alzheimer's Society speaks from the Canadian conference to Dr Mark Porter and says there's widespread excitement about the potential of brain training to protect against dementia. Dr Margaret McCartney urges caution, warning it's too early to make claims before the full data is available.
James is a young man with a high pressure sales job, but every year in the summer months he is crippled by agonising headaches. He's one of the 100,000 people in the UK who suffers from cluster headaches, so called because they come in disabling bouts, lasting for 4-6 weeks at a time. Inside Health visits a new one-stop multidisciplinary rapid-access headache clinic at St Thomas's Hospital in London, where James is getting treatment. Dr Giorgio Lambru, who heads the new service, tells Mark why it's so vital that patients with cluster headaches have to be seen, diagnosed and treated quickly.
Years after cardiac rehabilitation became a standard part of therapy for heart attacks, the same post-treatment care still isn't routinely available for people who've had cancer, despite decade-old guidance from NICE suggesting that it should be. The UK's first clinical trial to measure holistic cancer care is hoping to provide the evidence that will demonstrate the type of support and rehabilitation that really works. Professor of Nursing Annie Young from Warwick Medical School and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust tells Mark that after treatment, patients can feel abandoned and vulnerable.
#hellomynameis is a hugely successful social media campaign which highlights the importance of healthcare staff introducing themselves to patients. It was launched by Dr Kate Granger after her experience of being in hospital. Kate died at the weekend from cancer, aged just 34. Dr Margaret McCartney describes the enormous impact of Kate's campaign throughout the NHS.
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| 0:33.1 | Hello and thank you for downloading this program, which was first broadcast on the 26th of July 2016. |
| 0:40.1 | Coming up today, the world's worst headache. |
| 0:43.4 | We visit the UK's first one-stop clinic for people with the dreaded cluster headache. |
| 0:49.0 | The only thing you can really compare it to is if you get your thumb on your right hand |
| 0:52.7 | and you shove it up behind your eye as hard as you possibly can, people liken it to is if you get your thumb on your right hand and you shove it up behind your eye |
| 0:54.7 | as hard as you possibly can, people liken it to like a hot poker being rammed right in your |
| 1:00.3 | eye. Sometimes you just physically have to bash your head against the wall to get rid of them. |
| 1:04.2 | It's not very helpful, but yeah, they are horrific. |
| 1:07.5 | And we explore rehabilitation therapy for people who've had cancer. |
| 1:12.6 | It helped me to take my own recovery in hand. |
| 1:16.6 | You've got to bring a bit to the party yourself when you're recovering from cancer. |
| 1:21.6 | The doctors have done the major part of their bits with the chemicals and the radiotherapy and the surgery, |
| 1:29.0 | you have to meet them halfway with your recovery, or more than halfway probably. |
| 1:34.0 | Rehab is already a well-established way of improving quality of life for people with heart and lung |
| 1:39.7 | disease, so why isn't it being used more in cancer? But first dementia, a new research suggesting that brain training could reduce the number of people affected by dementia. |
| 1:51.3 | The concept isn't new, but the scale of the benefit has taken many by surprise. |
| 1:56.4 | The 10-year study involved just over 2 half thousand volunteers, divided into four different groups. |
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