Funded by the NIHR and in collaboration with colleagues from the Leicester diabetes centre we have developed a group structured education programme to support safe exercise in Adults with T1DM: the EXTOD education programme. We are currently working with the Open University to covert this programme to an online group education programme. This online programme will be launched in January 2022.
Funded by the NIHR and in collaboration with colleagues from the Leicester diabetes centre we have developed a group structured education programme to support safe exercise in Adults with T1DM: the EXTOD education programme. The course is now ready to be rolled out.
Parth Narendran and Rob Andrews were asked to give a talk at the Type 1 diabetes and physical activity meeting held by the Diabetes WA in Perth, Australia.
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Rob Andrews was asked to give a talked and to run a workshop at this conference. The talk was entitled "Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and exercise; challenges and benefits. The workshop was entitled "Managing glucose before, during and after exercise".
Rob Andrews was asked to give a talk on managing exercise in people with Type 1 diabetes. He then went on to run a workshop with Helen Brown on this subject.
Rob Andrews was asked to give a talk on Exercise and Type 1 diabetes at the BNSSG diabetes conference. At this conference he have a talk summaries some of the research that EXTOD have done and then gave some tips on how to improve glucose control around exercise.
Parth Narendran was asked to do a talk on Type 1 diabetes and exercise at the Diabetes Professional Care Conference held at the Olympia in London on the 30th of October 2019.
EXTOD, JDRF and the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) joined forces to deliver a new and interactive training day focusing on type 1 diabetes and exercise for patients with Type 1 diabetes.
This whole day event was aimed at those over the age of 18 with type 1 diabetes who are interested in exercise, exercising regularly or are planning to start to train for a specific exercise event. It was based on the EXTOD education programme which was developed through funding from the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit fund and with the help of colleagues from Leicester, Bedfordshire and Pinderfields.