This is a short film about Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit (BRU) at the Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. It is part of a multi-million pound scheme to prevent, diagnose and treat ill-health and is one of 16 BRUs around England funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), a strategic research funding body within the NHS. The Glenfield Unit is a partnership between the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. In the film Professor Nilesh Samani and Professor Bryan Williams discuss how the Leicester Cardiovascular BRU differs from the other BRUs. It is aimed at improving the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of coronary heart disease and hypertension (high blood pressure). It provides an infrastructure — people, space and equipment — which allows researchers to complete challenging or complex projects in these conditions. In addition, the BRU hosts a dedicated research database, the first of its kind in the UK, which is linked to a collection of blood samples from patient volunteers who have made their medical records available to researchers. For more information about Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit see: www2.le.ac.uk

For more information visit – www.TM.org The wide-ranging benefits of the Transcendental Meditation technique have been verified by more than 600 scientific studies conducted at 250 independent universities, research institutions and medical schools in 33 countries during the past 40 years. Research studies have described specific physiological effects that occur during the practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique. The first studies were published in the early 1970s in Science, American Journal of Physiology, and Scientific American. This research found that the Transcendental Meditation technique produced a physiological state that the researchers called a “wakeful hypometabolic state.” During the practice of the technique the researchers found significant reductions in respiration, minute ventilation, tidal volume, blood lactate, and significant increases in basal skin resistance, while EEG measurements showed increased coherence and integration of brain functioning. In 1987, researchers at Maharishi University of Management, Dillbeck, MC, and DW Orme-Johnson, concluded that the physiology was alert rather than asleep during TM practice. Studies have suggested a positive correlation between the Transcendental Meditation technique and possible health-related physiological states, including improvement in lung function for patients with asthma, reduction of high blood pressure, an effect the researchers termed “younger biological age”, decreased insomnia …

An explanation of why people develop chronic lower back pain looking at faulty movement patterns and how our beliefs about our spine influences our recovery. An evidence based approach that is developed from research and many years of clinical practice.