Category Archives: Health Professionals

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Sleep and the menopause

Posted on by Tim Deakin
19
Jun

Doctor Nicola Barclay, departmental lecturer in sleep medicine at the University of Oxford and Mammoth sleep ambassador. The menopause is a significant hormonal, psychological and physical change that typically affects women around the age of 50. During the transition phase known as the perimenopause, a woman’s ovaries gradually produce less oestrogen and progesterone. This shift […]

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Is sleep medication making your insomnia worse?

Posted on by Tim Deakin
12
Jun

Many insomniacs depend on sleep medication to help them nod off, but this could be worsening your symptoms in the long term There are as many as 16 million adults in the UK living with insomnia, and for many of them sleeping pills provide a fast and effective solution to yet another sleepless night. In […]

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Here’s how you can improve your posture

Posted on by Tim Deakin
improving posture
09
May

No one has perfect posture. Yet there are many things that we can do to improve the way we stand, lie, walk and move in general. This can help improve health and safeguard against pain and serious injury. We take a closer look with the help of our friends at Perfect Balance Clinic. We first […]

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Expert Advice, Health Professionals, Physiotherapy

An Introduction to posture

Posted on by Tim Deakin
introduction to posture
03
May

Posture is one of those terms that we often hear people talking about. But do you actually know what posture is all about – and could you tell the difference between good posture and bad posture?  We take a closer look with the help of our friends at Perfect Balance Clinic, the experts in pain […]

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The Science of Comfort: Taking sleep seriously

Posted on by Kris Wood
24
Mar

In his second article for The Science of Comfort blog, Mammoth’s Fatigue and Human Performance specialist Dr Jonathan Bloomfield explains why a drastic change in attitude may be necessary for us to get the sleep quality our bodies need. Ok, so it’s now about time we all started taking sleep seriously. Sleep is something we’ve […]

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Mammoth Ambassador, Anne Dickins paddles her way to an MBE in the New Year’s Honours list

Posted on by Kris Wood
Anne Dickins
13
Jan

The team at Mammoth are delighted to announce that Olympic and World Paracanoe Champion, Anne Dickins, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. Anne, who is also a Chartered Physiotherapist and mother of two, first took up paracanoe after London 2012. She has been a Mammoth Ambassador since 2014 when […]

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Why sleep and comfort are the first line of defence against poor health

Posted on by Kris Wood
better sleep better health
21
Dec

Mammoth’s Human Performance Specialist, Dr Jonathan Bloomfield, investigates how sleep and comfort can have a profound effect on health and wellbeing. Before we can consider how best to improve sleep among the general public, we must first understand the scale and the nature of the problem. Let me put a few statistics in front of […]

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Sleep has a place in every health professional’s toolkit

Posted on by Kris Wood
quality sleep
02
Nov

Sports scientist Dr Jonathan Bloomfield will attend his first ER-WCPT show in Liverpool this month as part his role as Human Performance Specialist for Mammoth, the experts in comfort technologies. He explains why he believes that our understanding of sleep is still in its infancy, and that the potential for improvements across the health sector […]

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The expert view: How to get a good night’s sleep when you suffer from back pain

Posted on by Kris Wood
back pain
23
Sep

This article on achieving a good night’s sleep was contributed by Chartered Physiotherapist, Matt Donnelly, and was first published by Beds Are Uzzz, Southbourne. Did you know that over 80% of people experience back pain at some point in their life? Back pain is very common and although in most cases it is nothing serious, […]

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Practitioner Interview: Perfect Balance Clinic

Posted on by Kris Wood
better sleep
17
Aug

Stephen Makinde is the founder and director of Perfect Balance Clinic. With seven practices across London and St Albans, Stephen and his business partner have become the latest health professionals to promote the benefits of Mammoth mattresses to their patients. Read on to find out why he believes our mattresses are effective in complementing the […]

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