POTS/OI for Health Professionals
This module offers an evidence-based approach to POTS and conditions of orthostatic intolerance, equipping healthcare professionals with the knowledge and tools necessary to provide optimal care for their clients.
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The umbrella of orthostatic intolerance (30 mins)
Discover the various forms of orthostatic intolerance, with a special focus on Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS).
Discover the various forms of orthostatic intolerance, with a special focus on Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS).
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Assessing the POTS Patient (30 mins)
Predisposing factors, precipitating factors, comorbidities and considerations.
Predisposing factors, precipitating factors, comorbidities and considerations.
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Acute triggers (25 mins)
Learn what can contribute to a symptomatic exacerbation from moment to moment in POTS/OI.
Learn what can contribute to a symptomatic exacerbation from moment to moment in POTS/OI.
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Accumulative Triggers (27 mins)
Learn what can contribute to long term adaptations in function and symptoms in POTS/OI by looking at the big picture.
Learn what can contribute to long term adaptations in function and symptoms in POTS/OI by looking at the big picture.
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Medical Management of POTS/OI (14 mins)
Medication management is always the domain of the treating medical team (GP, cardiologist, physician) - here we discuss the common medications and their proposed mechanisms in POTS/OI.
Medication management is always the domain of the treating medical team (GP, cardiologist, physician) - here we discuss the common medications and their proposed mechanisms in POTS/OI.
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Lifestyle Management of POTS/OI (40 mins)
Supporting people with POTS/OI requires a multi-faceted, creative approach. Let’s uncover the physiology of what actually works, whilst identifying common barriers and troubleshooting them together.
Supporting people with POTS/OI requires a multi-faceted, creative approach. Let’s uncover the physiology of what actually works, whilst identifying common barriers and troubleshooting them together.
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Handout: Management Strategies
To help you on your way, we’ve included for a downloadable PDF of the most up-to-date strategies for POTS/OI management.
To help you on your way, we’ve included for a downloadable PDF of the most up-to-date strategies for POTS/OI management.
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Providing Effective Movement Guidance (36 mins)
Exercise is like medicine in POTS - it’s important to get the type, dosage, frequency and timing right, and be prepared to adjust this on a regular basis.
Exercise is like medicine in POTS - it’s important to get the type, dosage, frequency and timing right, and be prepared to adjust this on a regular basis.
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Connection Medicine Co. wishes to acknowledge that this content was developed and recorded on what always was and always will be the lands of the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nation.
We wish to express our deep respect and gratitude to all elders past and present, and any First Nations people reading this.
We appreciate the Aboriginal model of health as a guiding light for our practice, with recognition for the interconnectedness of all things.