not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened - Episode 16 with Grant Bush

Welcome to 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', Episode 16

Now with listeners in 16 countries!

This Episode is brought to you by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes.

If you're living with diabetes or a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, you're in the right place!

Join us on our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations will always be honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we discuss real people, their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

This week Stan and Michael chat about the rise in winter maladies and advise on over-the-counter remedies and prescribed corticosteroids. They also discuss a recent news article highlighting the lack of foundational functional literary in young South African schoolkids, compounded by parents and caregivers abdicating their education role by not reading and storytelling. Such ‘socio-economic determinants of health’ may have serious implications for the future of these children in society and in the workplace, and in the self-management of their health. Practically, we see evidence of this problem among health professionals – as a result, not all health professionals within the same profession are equal in their functional literacy, and in their resultant clinical insights and abilities.

Our studio guest this week is Grant Bush, Owner Physiotherapist at Grant Bush Physiotherapy, Co-Host of Wits Sport and Health Podcast and living with type 1 diabetes. We learn about Grant’s

• Early life and challenges living with type 1 diabetes since the age of 6 years
• The importance of his mom’s support of his his early self-management, and the importance of this in cementing better long-term outcomes
• Interest in sport and how it improved overall diabetes management, despite increasing the risk for hypoglycaemia
• Current professional role as an outpatient physiotherapist, focussing on sports injuries, musculoskeletal pain, orthopaedic and acute injury rehabilitation and chronic pain management
• Thoughts on the role of physiotherapy as a pharmacotherapy-sparing approach to the support of diabetes self-management, some common physio-remediable injuries seen in people with diabetes, and the roles of glycaemic management and regular physical activity in reducing these risks
• Take on when physiotherapy wouldn't be the right first-line approach to a presumed musculoskeletal injury
• Current sporting interests
• Co-host role in the WiSH Podcast, and the role of podcasting in enlarging access to lifelong learning
• Improved diabetes management with a new insulin pump and continuous glucose monitoring, which have relieved symptoms of his psoriasis and assisted with the challenges of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• New practice
• Current training in and passion for managing pain

We also introduce the next Sweet Life Diabetes Community Advocacy Message, “Sometimes it’s really helpful to pull things back to the very basics…”

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