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Doing Something for Others and Joint Pain

Factual: Health & Wellbeing

20/03/2017

BBC Radio Scotland - Personal Best, Doing Something for Others and Joint Pain

The health benefits of doing something for others, plus understanding joint pain.

Gillian Russell explores the health benefits of doing things for others and the importance of understanding joint pain.

Have you ever raised money for charity? Was it as a tribute to someone who died, to channel your energy into doing something positive, to share some kind of feel-good factor or to perhaps get yourself fit as a result of a charity challenge? Gillian Russell talks to chartered psychologist Dr George Fieldman about why we raise money for charity and what we get out of it personally.

Mandy Allan and her son Daniel are planning to raise money for charity this year - she's doing a 5k and he's doing a marathon - as a tribute to family members who have died. They explain how raising money for charity can be a great motivator as well as giving them the sense of being able to give something back. Mandy is also determined to use this as a catalyst to finally get herself fit and healthy...

Numerous studies suggest that volunteering is good for our health and well-being. Lauren Mackay visits the volunteers at Disability Scotland to find out what they personally get out of volunteering and how it makes them feel.

We might tend to associate joint pain with getting older but a new study has found that we can be affected by it across all age groups due to improper training, sports strains or a sedentary lifestyle. Public health nutritionist Dr Emma Derbyshire and former Olympic rower turned personal trainer Toby Garbett advise on how we can help prevent it and what we can do the improve the situation if we're already affected.

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