Since 2017, Queensland X-Ray has supported Toowoomba-based charity Blush Cancer Care Inc. Our support, partnered with allied health specialist The Fit Lab, provides a holistic approach to women's post-cancer care via the wellbeing programme Fight Back with Fitness.
Highly trained Exercise Physiologists from The Fitlab developed the Fight Back with Fitness programme, which Blush Cancer Care Inc. oversees. Thanks to QXR's annual donation, participants receive the programme and a DEXA Body Composition Scan at no charge. The programme is backed by extensive ongoing research from Edith Cowan University, which highlights the positive effects of exercise on cancer patients' survival rates.
Michael Hede, Chief Sonographer at Queensland X-Ray Toowoomba, a founder of the programme with The Fit Lab in 2017 has witnessed its positive impact over the years.
"The research shows that specially developed exercise programmes positively benefit survival rates and improve physical and mental wellbeing.
"When listening to feedback from the first Fight Back with Fitness group in 2018 and subsequent cohorts, it was and still is hard not to feel moved by transformations and the overwhelming positive benefits participants receive physically and mentally as a result of the programme."
