2015 HMNS Seminar Series If exercise is medicine for diabetes, how do doctors get their patients moving?
Event Details
- Date:
- Friday, 24 April 2015
- Time:
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- Room:
- 127
- UQ Location:
- Human Movement Studies Building (St Lucia)
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Sandrine Kingston-Ducrot
- Phone:
- 56912
- Email:
- s.ducrot@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Exercise has been advocated as powerful therapy for people with type 2 diabetes. However, recent results from the Look Ahead trial has led some in the medical profession to question the benefits of exercise people with the disease. This presentation will examine the findings of Look Ahead and other evidence from large trials investigating the effects of exercise training for people with type 2 diabetes. Furthermore, a discussion of the Exercise is Medicine initiative will include the role of doctors in motivating patients to exercise and suggested strategies to facilitate behaviour change.
Presenter:
Prof Coombes’s research interests focus on determining the optimal exercise prescription for improving health. With theoretical backgrounds in biochemistry and physiology he conducts human studies and basic science projects. His findings have emphasised the importance of cardiorespiratory fitness for health benefits and many of his current projects are using high intensity interval to improve fitness and investigate outcomes. The basic science projects are identifying the mechanisms that explain the health benefits of exercise and include work in the cardiovascular and musculoskeletal systems at cellular and molecular levels. He is also a passionate advocate on the importance of fitness for health and delivers many presentations to impact on public health. His research group comprises doctors, postdoctoral fellows and PhD students and uses the extensive resources of the exercise physiology and exercise biochemistry laboratories in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences.
Directions to UQ
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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