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Clinical Medicine
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Hypothyroidism, Hypoglycemia, and other
Endocrine Disorders
Item Number: 902
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Hours: 5
Price: $54
TX
OT Type 2
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The purpose of the course is to review five endocrine disorders a therapist is likely to encounter:
Hypothyroidism, Hyperthyroidism, Hypoglycemia, Hypoadrenalism,
and Osteopenia. The causes, common symptoms and signs, and the
laboratory tests used to establish the diagnosis, and medical treatment
strategies for each are presented. How each disorder affects the therapy
plan is discussed.
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Therapy
and the Sleep Deprived Patient
Item Number: 905
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Hours: 4
Price: $35
TX
OT Type 2
Instructional
Level: Introductory/Intermediate
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This course will assist the therapist in understanding how the loss of sleep
interferes with activities of daily living and has adverse effects on the body's
ability to recover from illness or injury. This course discusses the
importance of sleep, instructs in the stages of sleep, includes specific common
sleep disorders, and discusses how lifestyle factors, medical illnesses and
medications affect sleep. Included is a section on the therapist's role
which specifically addresses therapy assessment, setting goals, and therapy
intervention for patients who have been sleep deprived.
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Obesity,
Insulin Resistance, Diabetes and their
Consequences
Item Number: 906
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Hours: 4
Price: $39
TX
OT Type 2
AOTA
Category 1, 2
Intermediate
Available
Feb 09
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This course is designed to help you understand the
link between obesity, insulin resistance, and diabetes.
This course provides information and skills to improve the therapist’s
understanding of insulin resistance and its consequences; the relationship
between obesity, insulin resistance, prediabetes, metabolic syndrome and
diabetes. The therapist will learn how to develop a treatment program for
patients with this condition, understand how exercise can effect insulin
resistance, and recognize the effect of therapy on clients with this condition.
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