Physical Therapy Research Guide
Databases with Physical Therapy Content
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text
- Indexes nursing and allied health literature, including physical therapy sources. In addition to full-text resources, links users to full text in many of our other databases.
- PEDro: Physiotheraphy Evidence Database
- "PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality to help you quickly discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable and those which are not."
- SportDiscus
- Index to articles on physical education, physical training, sports medicine, sports industry business topics, and other sports-related topics. Links to full-text in other databases.
- HealthSciences and Management Journals In ProQuest
- Search both Proquest Health & Allied Science Source and ProQuest Health Management Journals at the same time. See next screen for details on each database.
- Medline (via EBSCOhost)
- An access point to articles in Medline with links to the full-text of many articles.
- PubMed (via the National Library of Medicine)
- PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
- Using MeSH Subject Headings — from the National Library of Medicine
- HealthSource Nursing/Academic Edition
- Full text of scholarly and professional nursing journals covering many different types of nursing. Contains consumer-oriented drug information through a partnership with Lexi-Pals.
- PsychInfo & PsychArticles
- Useful for articles on brain function.
- General Science Index
- Provides access to articles or citations to both scholarly and popular journal articles from a wide swath of scientific disciplines.
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Advanced Searching in EBSCOhost 2.0 Highly recommended! EBSCOhost tutorial to familiarize you with many of the new
features available in the EBSCOhost databases, including CINAHL and Medline. Includes information on saving searches, setting up search and journal
alerts, and personalizing EBSCOhost. Opens in a new window. (8.13 mins.)
CINAHL Plus with Full Text: In Depth Review — EBSCOhost Tutorial (4.5 mins.), opens in a new window
CINAHL Advanced Searching — EBSCOhost PowerPoint Tutorial
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Physical Therapy Web Links
Clinical Trials
Evidence-based Medicine
General Links
- APTA: American Physical Therapy Association
- Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy
- Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
- Journal Watch
- "Physician-authored summaries and commentary from the publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine
- Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
- OmniMedicalSearch.com
- a meta-search engine for medical sites
- Physical Therapist.com
- Physical Therapy Journal
- Physical Therapy: The Web Space
- PT Central
- PT Students.com
- Whole Brain Atlas
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