The need for Diabetes education and rehabilitation continues to escalate.
Total Population: 23.6 million people—7.8 percent of the American population—have diabetes.
Diagnosed: 17.9 million people
Undiagnosed: 5.7 million people
"Diabetes is fast becoming the epidemic of the 21st century," the report said.
The condition occurs when the body cannot produce or use insulin properly to process sugar. It already affects 246 million people worldwide, up from 30 million two decades ago. "Wherever poverty and a lack of sanitation drive families to low cost-per-calorie foods and packaged drinks, Type 2 diabetes thrives," the federation said in a statement. Overweight and obesity are risk factors for Type 2 diabetes. http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2006/12/04/diabetes.html
What we can do to help: Implement Diabetes Rehabilitation!
Diabetes Rehabilitation is an exercise and educational treatment process to help patients understand and manage diabetes. Our goal is to improve the quality of well-being for patients by helping them maintain glucose control, productivity and independence. http://www.diabetes.org/type-2-diabetes/tight-control.jsp
What is different about this program?
Rehabilitation Systems recognizes that even if every therapist were trained to work with diabetes patients (they aren’t) there still wouldn’t be enough therapists for all the people who need rehabilitation. Using the internet may be the best way to reach out to the numbers of people who can benefit from rehabilitation. With a combined effort between therapists and technology, we can reach out to far more patient in need of diabetes disease management skills and increased physical independence that results from diabetes rehabilitation.
Why should you consider rehabilitation?
Exercise is one of the best therapies for diabetes.
Exercise can help you:
- Keep your blood sugar in your target range
- Maintain a healthy weight
- Have more energy
- Lower your stress
What can you expect from a diabetes rehabilitation program?
- You will work with a professional who will help you monitor and safely increase your ability
- You will receive encouragement that will help you maintain activity in your life
- You will be invited to engage in 30-60 minutes of exercise, 3 times a week with an online support group
- Education specific to your disease will help you avoid disease-related complications
- You will improve your confidence in your ability to manage your diabetes
If you think you may be a candidate for diabetes rehabilitation, check with your doctor, and then sign up with us to begin a positive change in your life.
For diabetes patients who cannot attend a diabetes rehabilitation program:
Rehabilitation Systems offers a unique online diabetes rehabilitation training program, developed to serve patients seeking their own program. Scientifically-based restorative principals and practices fill your training program, organized to create a pathway to increased independence, skills for living, and quality of life. This is a 12 session training program with online-health-coaching to strengthen your learning and performance process.
This emerging approach to serving the restorative needs of a growing patient population at home, in skilled-, assisted-, and independent living facilities, community centers, and the like, is accomplished with a computer and an internet connection.
Plan to join us online for this 12 session diabetes rehabilitation training program. Please don’t forget to invite a friend to join you for this life changing process, as you gain more control of your health. In this way you will build your own support system for on-going success.
Online rehabilitation classes are conducted Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in one hour sessions, for three (3) weeks. As part of this program, online health coaching helps you with technical issues, answers your health questions and walks you step-by-step through your rehabilitation program. Sign up now
What will you get with this program?
You will receive two downloadable manuals. In one you will learn the process of rehabilitation, including personal assessment and evaluation, how to progress safely, techniques to help you avoid glucose control complications, how to use your equipment more effectively, and other topics.
The second manual will assist you in goal setting, building a personal health history, and developing a diary of your medications.
Over three weeks you will begin a process that has proven to restore physical ability, fortify you’re efforts to manage the complications of diabetes for greater skill for living.
Exercise equipment used in our training program is very simple and can be used in any setting. You can do this program with a small amount of equipment. In fact, you may have many of the tools or resources available right now. Click here for a list of equipment in our gym.
Sign up now and your support group joins for free.
