Clinical Exercise Learning Centre
Deakin University has a Clinical Exercise Learning Centre (CELC). The Learning Centre specialises in providing exercise services for people living with, or at risk of, chronic medical disease, injuries or disabilities. The services are provided by Accredited Exercise Physiologists (AEP), with the assistance of postgraduate students enrolled in the Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology (H743).
AEPs deliver exercise, lifestyle and behavioural modification programs for the prevention and management of chronic diseases and injuries such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, anxiety and depression disorders, cancer, arthritis, respiratory disease and many others. AEPs are able to provide clinical exercise services under Medicare Australia, WorkSafe Victoria, TAC, Comcare, DVA and private health insurance schemes.
CELC offers these services to staff, students and the general public. The most common form of referral to CELC services is via a general practitioner (GP), but CELC also accepts other forms of referral, including self-referral. For referred services, the client is bulk-billed (no out-of-pocket expenses) and for self-referred or extended services beyond the life of the referral, the fees are modest.
What do Accredited Exercise Physiologists (AEP) do for their clients?
AEPs help their clients to improve
clinical status: preventing or retarding the progression or impact of disease, preventing relapse or providing rehabilitation
quality of life
CELC believes that better outcomes can be achieved by educating and motivating clients to participate in exercise and in the planning of their lifestyle programs, and by enabling them to connect exercise with healthy lifestyle.
More information on Clinical Exercise Learning Centre and AEP Scope of Practice
