EXS 343 Sport and Exercise Pharmacology

3 credit hours

This course will provide a general understanding of the primary drug classes and the physiologic basis of their action. It will explore different disorders and the drugs that you routinely choose to treat them and their effects of the body. There will be emphasis placed on drugs that clinicians administer to treat people receiving physical therapy and how these drugs can affect the outcomes of rehabilitation. This course will address how drug therapy can exert beneficial effects as well as adverse side effects that influence the mental and physiological parts of a patient’s life.

Prerequisite: EXS 341 Kinesiology and EXS 345 Exercise Physiology
Course is Offered: WI Every Year