Fw: [aca-members] CE Pharmacology Training for Physical Therapists

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From my fellow ACA Delegate in Oklahoma...what the physical therapists are

up to...part of their nationwide 2020 plan is to add pharmacology or limited

prescription rights, nutritional counseling, direct unlimited access to

patients, and primary care provider status.....

Vern Saboe DC

[aca-members] CE Pharmacology Training for Physical Therapists

Pharmacology in Rehabilitation

Instructor: D Ciccone, PT, PhD

Course Description: This course will present the primary drug classes and

the physiologic basis of their action. Drugs will be grouped according to

their general effects and the type of disorders they are routinely used to

treat. Special emphasis will be placed on drugs that are commonly used to

treat people receiving physical therapy. This course will likewise address

how drug therapy interacts with physical therapy, and how drugs can exert

beneficial effects as well as adverse side effects that impact on

rehabilitation.

Course Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Integrate pharmacokinetic principles with pharmacodynamics, and judge how

drug effects are influenced by their administration, absorption,

distribution, storage, and metabolism in the human body.

Compare and contrast general categories of drugs that are used

therapeutically to treat specific problems in the body.

Compare and contrast the physiological mechanisms by which individual drugs

affect the different organ systems in the body.

Evaluate drug side effects, and differentiate these side effects from the

symptoms of the patient's disease(s).

Assess situations where drug levels are too high versus too low (i.e.,

increased drug toxicity versus decreased efficacy).

Judge the potential for harmful interactions between specific drugs and

various physical therapy interventions.

Choose physical therapy interventions in accordance with the patient's drug

regimen.

Required Text: Ciccone, CD: Pharmacology in Rehabilitation, edition 3. F.A.

, Company, Philadelphia, 2002

Course Schedule:

Topic

Readings*

I. Basic principles of pharmacology: drug nomenclature; FDA regulation, drug

administration, distribution, and excretion)

Chapters 1-3

II. Treatment of pain and inflammation: analgesic & anti-inflammatory drugs

(opioids; NSAID's; acetaminophen; glucocorticoids)

Chapters 14, 15, 17

III. Skeletal muscle relaxants: treatment of muscle spasms and spasticity

Chapter 13

IV. Anesthesia: general anesthetics (barbiturates, inhaled anesthetics,

etc.); local anesthetics (lidocaine, etc.)

Chapters 11, 12

V. Seizure disorders

Chapter 9

VI. Parkinson disease

Chapter 10

VII. Psychopharmacology: sedative-hypnotics; antianxiety drugs;

antidepressants; antipsychotics; treatment of dementia

Chapters 6-8

VIII. Cardiovascular drugs: antihypertensives; treatment of angina pectoris;

antiarrhythmics; treatment of congestive heart failure; treatment of

coagulation disorders; treatment of hyperlipidemia

Chapters 21-25

IX. Respiratory drugs: antitussives; antihistamines; decongestants;

treatment of asthma

Chapter 26

X. Gastrointestinal drugs: Antacids; antidiarrheals; laxatives

Chapter 27

XI. Treatment of infection: antibacterials; antivirals; antifungals

Chapters 33-35

XII. Cancer chemotherapy

Chapter 36

XIII. Endocrine pharmacology: treatment of diabetes mellitus; androgens;

estrogens and progestins; thyroid hormones

Chapter 28-32

XIV. Iontophoresis

A. (see below)

XV. Phonophoresis

B. (see below)

XVI. Wound healing

C. (see below)

XVII. Complimentary and alternative medicines

D. (see below)

* Readings refer to Ciccone: Pharmacology in Rehabilitation, 3rd edition,

unless otherwise indicated. If you are interested, other supplemental or

optional references are:

A. Ciccone CD: Iontophoresis. In AJ, Snyder-Mackler L (eds):

Clinical Electrophysiology, ed 2. and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995.

B. Machet L, Boucaud A. Phonophoresis: efficiency, mechanisms, and skin

tolerance. Int J Pharm 2002;243:1-15.

C. Kloth LC, McCulloch JM (eds): Wound Healing, Alternatives in Management,

ed 3. (See chapters 4,5,7,8). FA , Philadelphia, 2001.

D. Ernst E: The risk-benefit profile of commonly used herbal therapies:

Ginkgo, St 's Wort, Ginseng, Echinachea, Saw Palmetto, and Kava. Ann

Intern Med 2002;136:42-53.

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