Anyone who spends long periods of inactivity can benefit from it - from office workers to gamers and hospitalised people, to air travellers. Dragons’ Den star Peter Jones has opened up on the time he was hospitalised following a long plane journey, winding up with a ‘tube in his groin’. Since his illness he has worked as a trustee for Thrombosis UK, become an appointed member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in its examination of thromboembolic diseases, and helped launch RBR legflow. RBR Active founder Paul Westerman set up the company in 2018 after he almost died when a DVT he sustained in his lower limb after a tennis injury travelled through his heart to his lungs, causing a massive PE.

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Mr Westerman said: “Thrombosis within gaming really needs to be a research priority as it has been with air travel which is now recognised as an important risk factor of DVT. On tonight’s episode of the BBC One series, Paul Westerman from Cambridgeshire entered the Den to put forward the RBR legflow, a clinically-trialled product aimed to help prevent deep vein thrombosis. Despite Peter expressing how impressed he was by the product, when it emerged that Paul didn’t have a patent, this caused several of the Dragons to feel unease over investing.

I got very, very wheezy and had trouble breathing – so much so that I thought I was going to die. I was put on a course of antibiotics.’ It is a serious medical condition that can lead to life-threatening complications such as pulmonary embolism (PE). He said: “Blood clots kill more people each year than AIDS, breast cancer, prostate cancer and motor vehicle crashes combined.

RBR Active - Here is the RBR Legflow. This small device sits

Ever since, I’ve done exactly the same as you. I literally move all the time, and even when I’m sitting in this chair.’ But they are entirely preventable. Whatʼs more, they put a huge financial pressure on the NHS which we all know is struggling. Peter emphasised how he ‘knows that this is an issue’, adding that ‘sadly many people have lost their lives over this problem’. Three years ago I had pneumonia. I had been working too hard and got a bit run-down,’ he said at the time. Want more news direct to your inbox? Sign up to our daily newsletter here. Read More Related ArticlesverifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ Now a new product has been released in the UK market, designed to encourage simple leg exercises to drastically reduce the risk of blood clot in the lower limbs.