Exercise is well recognised to be one of the most effective treatments of type 2 diabetes mellitus and directly attacks the pathophysiology of the disease. Despite this, for a variety of reasons e.g. time constraints, comorbidities such as arthritis, make exercise difficult for many patients.
Christine Armarego has unique and comprehensive experience in Chronic Disease Management, including Diabetes Mellitus.
Christine provides an inportant service to our patients in assisting in devising exercise programs that help with improvement in diabetic control, as well as encouraging weight loss, improving blood pressure, cholesterol profile and generally improving well being and quality of life. Partial reimbursement is available under the appropriate Medicare Care Plan. With her associate Dr Adam Fraser she runs a program called the Glucose Club (link to the website is on this page); they have produced DVD's and most recently an excellent book called "Sugar Daddy", looking at the issue of exerise and lifestlye change in the management of diabetes.
