[Download Now] Pharmacology for Rehabilitation Professionals – Suzanne Tinsley

Understand how your patient’s medication affects their health.

Many patients being referred to therapy are taking prescription and OTC drugs. Some of these medications may not be related to their therapy diagnosis. What is the best way to manage them effectively?

In this recording, Dr. Suzanne Tinsley shows how to apply the principles of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics to all drug classifications. You will talk about the pharmacology of the central nervous system. You will analyze effects of drug actions on the major body systems, including mechanisms of therapeutic actions and adverse drug effects, problems involving drug interactions, and variables that modify drugs’ effects. Special consideration will be given to many of the drugs used to treat cardiovascular and neuro-musculoskeletal disorders. You can use case reports to uncover effects that have an impact on the rehabilitation management of patients and clients.

1. Describe the primary pharmacokinetic factors involved in drug administration, absorption, distribution, interaction, and elimination
2. Explain how altered pharmacokinetics may lead to a decrease or an increase in drug effects, and how these effects may be recognized in patients receiving therapy
3. Discuss the concepts of psychological and physical dependence, tolerance, withdrawal, receptor, sensitivity, and cross-tolerance
4. Identify the general categories, mechanisms of action, risk-benefit ratio, and implications on physical therapy and occupational interventions for the pharmacological agents routinely prescribed for conditions involving the cardiovascular, neuromuscular, endocrine, pulmonary, and central nervous systems
5. Analyze the possible effects of various drug actions on the effectiveness of physical therapy and occupational therapy interventions and functional outcomes
6. List the five classes of cardiac medications, the side effects of these medications, and how these side effects may interfere with rehabilitation outcomes

There are principles of pharmaceutics.

• Pharmacokinetic principles
• Pharmacodynamics principles
• Their importance to rehabilitation

The central neRVOUS system has a pathological system.

• Common CNS drugs seen in rehabilitation
  • Sedative-hypnotics, anti-seizure meds, anti-depressant meds, Parkinson’s disease meds, etc.
• Side effects and rehabilitation outcomes

There is a patient case study.

Pain management includes narcotics, non-steriodal, and anti-inflammable drugs.

• Advantages and disadvantages of each class
• Common side effects and their effect on rehabilitation outcomes
• Signs and symptoms of abuse

There are CARDIAC MEDICATIONS.

• 5 classes of cardiac medications
  • Beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, ACE inhibitors, diuretics, & glycosides
• How these drugs are combined to treat cardiac disease/pathology
• Therapeutic effects and side effects that may interfere with rehabilitation outcomes

The case of the pope.

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