For Your Patients

By Sheri Colberg, PhD
This time of year, all of the fitness clubs and gyms run specials to bring in new members, and they know—and even count on the fact that—most of those people will no longer be regularly attending classes or doing workouts by the time spring hits. How do you help your patients avoid joining those exercise dropouts? Here are some tips from our diabetes exercise expert that you can download in PDF format to hand out to your patients.

This calculator from Verywell Fit tells your patients how many calories they are burning according to the type of exercise they are performing and the length of time.

The 7 Minute Workout app is the #1 fitness app in 127 countries. Become your own personal trainer to lose weight and get fit with fast, simple daily workouts.

Children's Health Diabetes Advisor provides children and families with diabetes a mobile resource to complement the diabetes education programs at Children's Health System of Texas (CHST), providing a one stop source for an Education library and Ketone Manager.

GliControl allows you to keep a daily log for diabetes. View a list of glucose records/carbohydrates/insulin, insulin assistant, analysis. reports. medications with alerts, and much more.

KingFit is a mobile diabetes education app that features educational content from world-renowned diabetes educators to the palm of your hand. Unlike other diabetes apps, KingFit is the only solution that allows you to press two buttons to start learning from a certified diabetes educator for free.

iFORA - Diabetes Manager app designed to make busy lives easier to manage. iFORA comes with advanced mobile technology, sleek interface design, detailed and yet careful data management tools to assist you in better diabetes management. The easy-to-use tools can help you better understand how your blood glucose level interlinks with a positive self-monitoring process through recording, tracking, seeing your diabetes information in statistic trend graphs, target pie charts and exporting data to Fora TeleHealth solution to share with your doctor.

How to give a painless injection?  If you have Type 2 diabetes, sooner or later you may require insulin injections, either temporarily (as during infections) or permanently. This is nothing to be afraid of, even though many people with long-standing Type 2 diabetes literally spend years worrying about it.

New mobile app from Medtronic, Sugar.IQ™, applies AI technology from IBM Watson Health to help people with diabetes make more informed decisions.

Tobacco use is a well-established single most important preventable cause of disease and death. Healthcare providers are well-positioned to treat cigarette smoking and nicotine dependence among their patients. Unfortunately, not every physician, physician assistant, or nurse have sufficient time to provide extensive counseling and treatment during patient visits. QuitMedKit© is designed to assist healthcare providers in effective counseling and treatment of tobacco dependence among their patients. This program provides state-of-the-art knowledge on behavioral counseling and pharmacological treatments for nicotine dependence.