Originally written by Timothy Adler on Small Business
On the face of it, there is not much to connect the villainous Snoke, Supreme Leader of the First Order, in the Star Wars movie The Last Jedi and a Premier League footballer with a nagging hamstring injury.
However, the same motion-capture technology used to create villains in the Star Wars movies is being used to help elite athletes recover from sports injuries.
Vitrue Health, a healthtec start-up, uses sophisticated computer vision software to assess how sportsmen and others are moving. In many ways, it’s a more advanced version of the running gait technology which some sports shops use to help you buy the right pair of running shoes.
>See also: What winning The Start-Up Series meant for me – Ed Bird, Bird Eyewear
However, it’s a long way from Snoke’s home planet of Exegol to a Starbucks in Camden, where Vitrue Health founder Dr Shane Lowe and his partner Alex Haslehurst spent six months eking out cups of tea while they developed Vitrue Health.
Dr Lowe finished his PhD in biomechanics at NUI Galway in 2012, creating an algorithm predicting a person’s future ability to move based on how they are moving today.
He then worked
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What winning The Start-Up Series meant for me – Shane Lowe, Vitrue
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Originally written by Timothy Adler on Small Business
On the face of it, there is not much to connect the villainous Snoke, Supreme Leader of the First Order, in the Star Wars movie The Last Jedi and a Premier League footballer with a nagging hamstring injury.
However, the same motion-capture technology used to create villains in the Star Wars movies is being used to help elite athletes recover from sports injuries.
Vitrue Health, a healthtec start-up, uses sophisticated computer vision software to assess how sportsmen and others are moving. In many ways, it’s a more advanced version of the running gait technology which some sports shops use to help you buy the right pair of running shoes.
>See also: What winning The Start-Up Series meant for me – Ed Bird, Bird Eyewear
However, it’s a long way from Snoke’s home planet of Exegol to a Starbucks in Camden, where Vitrue Health founder Dr Shane Lowe and his partner Alex Haslehurst spent six months eking out cups of tea while they developed Vitrue Health.
Dr Lowe finished his PhD in biomechanics at NUI Galway in 2012, creating an algorithm predicting a person’s future ability to move based on how they are moving today.
He then
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Should you be outsourcing health and safety for your small business?
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Originally written by Partner Content on Small Business
As your small business grows, it’s easy to forget about some of the basics.
When staff numbers keep growing and profits increase, your time becomes even more stretched.
Which is when you might start to let some of the smaller things slip, like does your premises still have a suitable number of WCs? Are your staff overloading electricity sockets? Do you have enough first aiders to cover everyone?
Although such examples might seem quite inconsequential, they’re important. Because when something goes wrong, such as an employee suffers an injury with no first aiders available to help, a business risks facing legal action and a damaging penalty fine.
See also: How to fill the health and safety knowledge gap in your business
According to the Government, small business considers health and safety as its biggest regulatory headache and the most substantial obstacle to success.
Of course, no employer sets out to put staff at risk. We understand why safety in the work environment is not only important but also essential. We know that if we don’t provide a safe working environment for our employees and for those who use our facilities, the consequences can be devastating. It’s most often just
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Five effective ways to deal with staff sickness in the workplace
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We all know that days off due to sickness and injury can create problems with meeting deadlines and schedules, maintaining morale, delivering high levels of service and maintaining productivity. Yet the latest Office of National Statistics figures tell us that on average in 2016 there were just 4.3 days lost per worker due to sickness
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The ugly truth behind those ‘healthy’ office snacks
by Owen Gough • • 0 Comments
Did you plan to ‘prep’ lunch last night…but something more important cropped up? Me too. We all know that prepping our lunch and snacks the night before is more ‘cost-effective’, and allows us to make ‘healthier’ decisions…yet many of us still find ourselves nipping to the nearest café’s/ shops to get our drinks and snacks
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Third of UK office workers don’t get enough exercise, study finds
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A new survey commissioned by Pure Gym, to mark Global Employee Health and Fitness Month (GEHFM), reveals that one third (35 per cent) of UK office workers fail to get the National Health Service recommended exercise quota of 150 minutes per week. According to the NHS website, it’s advised that adults between the ages of
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The demise of the 9-5: employees feel pressure to work 24/7
by Owen Gough • • 0 Comments
Research from Bupa UK for World Health Day reveals that the traditional 9 to 5 is officially no more. The figures show that three-quarters (75 per cent) of Brits feel under pressure to respond to emails outside of work hours which can increase anxiety. More than half of Brits (55 per cent) now access their work emails
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Employee health issues misunderstood by businesses
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In addition, UK employers are less likely than others in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region to have a defined employee health strategy (30 per cent vs 40 per cent), according to a survey by Aon. The company’s EMEA Health Survey also shows that UK employers’ actions are out of line with their actual concerns. Some
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Smart Employers Find Ways to Ease Commuting Woes
by Leo Welder • • 0 Comments
Employees who walk or cycle to work are healthier, happier and more productive. Have you made room in your office to store all those bikes?