Pilates Medication Safety Guide for Instructors, Reformer & Mat (PDF)

The intake form comes back with bisoprolol, ramipril and apixaban on the medications line, and you trained in repertoire, not medicines. Later that week a member stands up from footwork and grips the frame, and another catches her head on the tower bar and says she is fine. This guide tells you what each common medicine changes in a Pilates session, what to watch for, what to ask at the door, and the point where her session ends.

A 68-page illustrated reference for qualified Pilates teachers, reformer, tower, jumpboard and mat. Every fact about a medicine is drawn from the NHS medicine pages, the medicines regulator's safety updates and national head injury guidance, with the sources listed at the back.

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WHAT'S INCLUDED
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✔ 24 medicine classes a teacher meets on an intake form: blood pressure and heart medicines, blood thinners, statins, insulin and diabetes tablets, steroid tablets, asthma inhalers, bone medicines, one family of antibiotics that can weaken the Achilles, antidepressants, sleeping tablets, pain and nerve medicines, epilepsy medicines. For each: names you may see, what it is usually for, what you may notice, what the session does, the question at the door and the sign that ends her session
✔ The Sign Ladder: 27 signs on four rungs, from a dry cough to a head knock on a blood thinner. Each has what you see, what it means, the first thing you do, what you say and what happens next
✔ Before the Session: 16 questions for a new medicine, a dose change, an antibiotic this season, a sleeping tablet last night, insulin and no lunch, with what to do with a yes and who she checks with
✔ Six flags (RISE, HEAD, EFFORT, KNOCK, PRESS, TENDON) and a table of which medicine carries which, so you can read a class plan against her list before she arrives
✔ The Exercise Index: 60 reformer, tower, jumpboard and mat exercises, each flagged, with what matters and the one change for a flagged day
✔ 22 studio situations with what to do and what not to do, from the blank medications line to a seizure on the reformer
✔ 11 line drawings of the flagged-day versions and 7 diagrams: what a medicine changes, the sign ladder, the talk test in place of heart rate, the slow rise, where a knock happens on a reformer with a tower, the Achilles tendon and the six flags

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PERFECT FOR
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• Reformer and mat teachers who run an intake form and want to know what to do with the answers
• Teachers of older adults, whose members often bring a list of several medicines
• Private teachers and studio owners who want the whole team giving the same answer to a head knock or a dizzy rise
• Teachers whose member went grey standing up and who want to know what to watch next time

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WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT
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✓ Effort by the talk test for a member on a beta blocker, whose heart rate rises less than usual whatever she does
✓ The antibiotic that can weaken her Achilles for months, and which exercises to swap while it applies
✓ A clear line for a knock to the head on a blood thinner, the same in every chapter
✓ Low blood sugar steps for a member on insulin or gliclazide, who treats it from her own plan
✓ You ask and refer. It never tells a member to take, skip or change a medicine

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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• Instant digital download: one PDF, 68 A4 pages
• Read on a tablet or print the pages you use
• Springs written as lighter and heavier so it fits any machine
• This is a digital file. Nothing physical will be posted

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DISCLAIMER
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For qualified Pilates teachers. This guide is education, not medical advice. It does not diagnose, and it never advises on a medicine, a dose or its timing: every question about a medicine goes to the member's prescriber, doctor or pharmacist. It does not replace first aid training or your studio's emergency procedure. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.