With over 12 years' experience between them, Dan and Gage chat about their different approaches for assessing and treating shoulder pathologies.

Nicole and Rachael from MacIntyre Health join us for an Allied Health collaboration chat about Diabetes management. Nicole Walker is an Accredited Dietitian and Rachael Baker is a Nurse Practitioner Candidate and Credentialled Diabetes Educator.

In this podcast we cover:

• Which should come first - Dietitian or Diabetes Educator?

Find out more about the guests on today's episode:

Welcome to Women's Health Week! A very special podcast where Nicole chats with Naomi from Oncore Nutrition, a company based in Melbourne who work within the Women's Health and Oncology fields. Nicole and Naomi discuss some great tips for practitioners on how to appropriately fuel for exercise sessions, how to manage clients who want to lose weight quickly, and the questions you should be asking your female clients to ensure optimal health!

Oncore are founders of the Allied Health Oncology Group (AHOG). 

OnCore Nutrition 

https://www.oncorenutrition.com/about/

Allied Health Oncology Group (AHOG) 

https://www.oncorenutrition.com/allied-health-oncology-group/

Prac Supervisors Dan and Holly share their advice to help student nailing their Practicum Placements.

- Choosing and preparing for placement 

- Professionalism 

- Employment opportunities and reputation 

- Embracing the challenge

Caitlin shares her experience on pursuing a speciality in EP after completing post-grad study in Exercise Medicine (Oncology). 

- Options to specialise

- Recommended PD

- Exercise Oncology practicum placements 

Nicole explains the role of Exercise Physiology during cancer care treatment. 

- What treatments are common

- Contraindications and red flags 

- Multi-disciplinary care

- Treatment fatigue management

- Prescribing exercise intensity/type 

Articles and notes: 

Cancer Council 

https://www.cancer.org.au/assets/pdf/arm-and-shoulder-exercises-after-surgery

AJGP 

https://www1.racgp.org.au/ajgp/2020/april/exercise-medicine-in-cancer-care

Questionnaires 

https://www.facit.org/measures/FACIT-F

Objective Measure

https://www.nccn.org/docs/default-source/patient-resources/nccn_distress_thermometer.pdf?sfvrsn=ef1df1a2_4

We welcome Nicole to the podcast to give us an overview of the cancer care continuum and how an EP can assist in the pre-treatment phase. We get into the specifics of subjective and objective assessments, models of care and the emotional aspect of working in the Exercise Oncology field. 

Brought to you by The Bodytrack Academy

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ExMed - Prue Cormie PD 

https://exmedcancerpd.learnbook.com.au/

MacIntyre Health resources

https://www.petermac.org/services/treatment/prehabilitation

https://www.macmillan.org.uk/healthcare-professionals/cancer-pathways/prehabilitation

For this Men's Health Week special, Dan is joined by Exercise Oncology specialist, Caitlin, to chat about the most common Men's Cancers, the vital role of exercise as medicine in cancer care for men, and other risk factors Exercise Physiologists should screen male clients for.

We're back with Holly to discuss Multiple Sclerosis:

- The types of MS

- How an EP manages a client with MS beyond exercise prescription.

- Scope of an EP in multidisciplinary care of MS

- Yellow and Red flags for clients with MS

Listen in as our Strength and Conditioning guru and EP, Cam, takes us through some concepts and emerging evidence on hypertrophy training.