It is “expected” that our patients use medications and it is our task as physical therapists to understand how medications can affect the patient’s response to physical therapy (Ciccone, 2016, p. 3). Knowing this, we should understand the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of the medications that our patients take and how medications affect a patient’s response to exercise. It was indicated in the article by Beiderman (2005) that the fusion of “clinical pharmacology and physical therapy practice” can be helpful to our “patients and to the physical therapy profession” (p. 366). It was also indicated in an article by Greathouse et al (1994), that military physical therapists can be authorized to order “certain analgesics and NSAIDS” (p. 263).
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(2016). Pharmacology in rehabilitation (5th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: FA Davis Co.
Chiaretti, A., Pierri, F., Valentini, P., Russo, I., Garguillo, L., & Riccardi, R. (2013). Current practice and recent advances in pediatric pain management. European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences, 17(1), 112-126. Retrieved from http://www.europeanreview.org/article/3095
Greathouse, D. G., Schreck, R. C., & Benson, C. J. (1994). The United States Army Physical Therapy Experience: Evaluation and Treatment of Patients With Neuromusculoskeletal Disorders. Journal of Orthopedic & Sports Physical Therapy, 19(5), 261-266. Retrieved from http://www.jospt.org/doi/pdf/10.2519/jospt.1994.19.5.261
Lansbury, G., & Sullivan, G. (2002). Advising Clients about Prescription Medications: A survey of physiotherapistpy practice in Australia. Physiotherapy, 88(1), 18-24. http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.utica.edu/10.1016/S0031-9406(05)60525-1
Prot-Labarthe, S., Weil, T., Angoulvant, F., Boulkedid, R., Alberti, C., & Bourdon, O. (2014). POPI (Pediatrics: Omission of Prescriptions and Inappropriate Prescriptions): Development of a Tool to Identify Inappropriate Prescribing. PLoS ONE, 9(6), e101171.
(2016). Pharmacology in rehabilitation (5th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: FA Davis Co.
Chiaretti, A., Pierri, F., Valentini, P., Russo, I., Garguillo, L., & Riccardi, R. (2013). Current practice and recent advances in pediatric pain management. European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences, 17(1), 112-126. Retrieved from http://www.europeanreview.org/article/3095
Greathouse, D. G., Schreck, R. C., & Benson, C. J. (1994). The United States Army Physical Therapy Experience: Evaluation and Treatment of Patients With Neuromusculoskeletal Disorders. Journal of Orthopedic & Sports Physical Therapy, 19(5), 261-266. Retrieved from http://www.jospt.org/doi/pdf/10.2519/jospt.1994.19.5.261
Lansbury, G., & Sullivan, G. (2002). Advising Clients about Prescription Medications: A survey of physiotherapistpy practice in Australia. Physiotherapy, 88(1), 18-24. http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.utica.edu/10.1016/S0031-9406(05)60525-1
Prot-Labarthe, S., Weil, T., Angoulvant, F., Boulkedid, R., Alberti, C., & Bourdon, O. (2014). POPI (Pediatrics: Omission of Prescriptions and Inappropriate Prescriptions): Development of a Tool to Identify Inappropriate Prescribing. PLoS ONE, 9(6), e101171.