If you have diabetes, one of the best things you can do for yourself is to stay - or begin to be - active. A regular exercise program can help stabilize your blood sugar, reduce your need for insulin and medication, and keep your weight under control. Diabetes increases the risk of heart disease, but exercise can lower it. Best of all, exercise helps you get more out of life.
Exercising safely with foot problems.
If you have nerve damage in your feet, you need to avoid repetitive, weight-bearing exercises, such as jogging, prolonged walking, and step aerobics. Repetitive stress on feet affected by neuropathy can lead to ulcers, fractures, and joint deformities. Stick to exercises that do not put stress on your feet, Use AiroGym Exerciser
A Little Exercise Goes a Long Way.
You don't have to spend hours exercising to look and feel better!
Just 30 minutes a day will do. You can split it up into small part.
Exercise helps in a lot of ways.
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It helps you deal with stress
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It lowers your blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol.
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It uses up extra sugar in your blood and helps your own insulin work better.
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It makes your heart and bones strong.
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It helps blood flow and tones muscles.
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It keeps your body and your joints flexible
Russell D. White, MD.
Virtually all individuals who have diabetes can benefit from exercise The potential gains are such that physicians should actively support the efforts of patients who have diabetes to increase physical activity to the extent of their capacity. In some cases—for example, for an obese individual with type 2 disease—regular exercise should be aggressively promoted as one of the foundations of management.
Professor Desmond Dall, Emeritus Professor of clinical orthopaedics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Professor Dall’s primary interests have been in adult reconstruction, total hip and knee replacement.
“Although the Airogym was primarily designed to prevent deep vein thrombosis in long-haul flights by promoting blood flow in the venous system of the lower limbs, there is every reason to believe that the device would also be beneficial to a large number of orthopaedic conditions and patients with general debilitative conditions.
The primary benefit of the Airogym is to activate the “muscle pump” in the lower limbs. This will have the effect of increasing blood flow as already shown in numerous studies, and also have the effect of increasing muscular activity, muscle tone and mobility. Through this action it is conceivable that it will also reduce the amount of pain that patients experience in a variety of situations.
I believe it would be extremely beneficial in rehabilitation in many post traumatic situations (e.g.: fractures of the tibia), postoperatively (e.g.: total joint replacement of the knee and hip), in patients with arthritis (eg: of the foot, ankle and knee), debilitation (neurological disease, malignant disease).”
It came to our attention that many Airogym™ exercisers were being bought by physiotherapists. Further investigation revealed they were using the Airogym™ to help their patients, either those recovering from illness, the elderly and immobile, and the disabled.
Mrs Anne Wooldridge MCSP SRP, a physiotherapist, has tested AIROGYM™ and now regularly employs the device during the treatment of elderly and less mobile patients.
“It has been proven in tests that exercising using the Airogym trebles the peak flow velocity measured in the femoral vein” comments Mrs Wooldridge. “Designed and developed by a senior long haul flight captain, the benefits of this simple, inflatable device are not exclusive to travellers. The of DVT problems in the elderly, the less mobile and the other ‘at risk’ patients has recently been highlighted. The AIROGYM™ is an ‘egg timer’ shaped sac, which is partially inflated and alternate pressure from the feet or hands offers resistance to movement. It is intended to be used in the seated position.“ Ann Wooldridge concludes; “This small, effective and reasonable priced product, is a useful tool in our armoury of preventive medicine."
