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Physical Therapy Portal

Welcome, Physical Therapy faculty, staff, and students!

Use this portal for quick access to the commonly used information resources selected by your program and your Ebling Library Liaison.

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PubMed (MEDLINE)

PubMed, the free version of MEDLINE, is the largest health literature database (indexing over 4500 journals). While somewhat complicated, the search engine is very powerful for those who know how to use it. When looking for answers to clinical questions, systematic reviews should be consulted first. If no recent or relevant reviews exist, one should use the PubMed Clinical Queries filter to find the best individual studies on a topic. This filter is designed specifically to limit your results to those studies atop the evidence hierarchy (e.g. RCTs).
CINAHL Plus

CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is an international project designed to quickly provide authoritative evidence-based answers to clinical questions. Reviews are created in a structured format and developed from an extensive and systematic search of the literature (generally randomized controlled trials). The Cochrane Collaboration has developed a strict methodology detailing how their reviews are performed, which they use to make best-practices recommendations for clinicians. This is an excellent source of EBM data for the busy clinician.
EBP Links

A variety of links to databases, websites, tools and calculators for evidence based healthcare practice.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)

ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,243,000 records and links to more than 224,000 full-text documents from ERIC.
National Guidelines Clearinghouse

Comprehensive listing of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database)

The Physiotherapy Evidence Database is a product of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy, an international non-profit organisation with services hosted in Australia. It provides rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and practice guidelines
PsycINFO

The PsycINFO , database, American Psychological Association's (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over 2.5 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the early 1800s. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 27 languages.
SPORTDiscus

Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains well over 1,392,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 22,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages
Web of Knowledge

Access to several databases including Web of Science (scientific citations), Biological Abstracts, Zoological Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports (journal impact factors and other metrics)

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American Physical Therapy Association Journals

The Ebling Library subscribes to the journals with bolded titles;
for access to other journals log in at the APTA site with your membership login & password

Acute Care
Web site: www.acutept.org
Quarterly publication: Acute Care Perspectives

Aquatic Physical Therapy
Web site: www.aquaticpt.org
Publications: The Journal of Aquatic Physical Therapy and the electronic Waterlines newsletter

Cardiovascular & Pulmonary
Web site: www.cardiopt.org
Quarterly publication: Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal(available online since Sept 1, 2004)

Clinical Electrophysiology and Wound Management
Web site: www.aptasce.com
SIGs: Electrophysiologic Evaluation, Physical Agent Interventions: Electrotherapy, Thermotherapy, Light Therapy, and Wound Management.
Quarterly electronic newsletter: Clinical Electrophysiology. SIGs: Electrophysiology, Electrotherapy, and Wound Management.

Education
Web site: www.aptaeducation.org
SIGs: Academic Administrators, Academic Faculty, PTA Educators, and Clinical Educators.
Publication: Journal of Physical Therapy Education (available online since 2004)

Federal Physical Therapy
Website: http://www.federalpt.org/
The Federal Physical Therapy Section promotes quality health care across the continuum of care within Federal medical services. The Section provides opportunities for networking, continuing education, leadership, and professional development for all physical therapists and physical therapist assistants who are or have been employed by the federal government in civil service, as members of the uniformed services, as contractors or as tribal hires, and who practice in a variety of settings including clinical, education, and research.

Geriatrics
Web site: www.geriatricspt.org
SIGs: Balance and Falls, Health Promotion and Wellness, and Osteoporosis.
Publications: 3 times/year peer-reviewed Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy and 6 times/year clinical magazine GeriNotes.

Hand Rehabilitation
Web site: www.handrehabsection.com
Five times/year newsletter: Hand Prints.

Health Policy & Administration
Web site: www.aptahpa.org
SIGs: Cross Cultural and International and Technology
Quarterly publication: The HPA Resource/HPA Journal (available online since 2007)

Home Health
Web site: www.homehealthsection.org
Quarterly publication: Quarterly Report.

Neurology
Web site: www.neuropt.org
SIGs: Brain Injury, Degenerative Diseases, Spinal Cord Injury, Stroke, Balance and Falls, and Vestibular Rehabilitation
Quarterly publication: Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy (JNPT) (available online since 2007)

Oncology
Web site: www.oncologypt.org
SIG: HIV/AIDS, Palliative and Hospice Care, and Lymphedema
Publications: Rehabilitation Oncology (triannual) and electronic newsletter (quarterly).

Orthopaedic
Web site: www.orthopt.org
SIGs: Occupational Health, Foot and Ankle, Performing Arts, Pain Management, and Animal Physical Therapist
Publications: monthly Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy (JOSPT) (available online since 1994) and quarterly Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Practice (OPTP).

Pediatrics
Web site: www.pediatricapta.org
SIGs: Adolescents & Adults with Developmental Disabilities, Pediatric Sports-Fitness, School-based PT, and Neonatology
Publications: Pediatric Physical Therapy and Section on Pediatrics Newsletter (available online since 2001)

Private Practice
Web site: www.ppsapta.org
Monthly publication: Impact. (A special subscription program is available to non-PT practice administrators of PPS members.)

Research
Web site: www.ptresearch.org
SIG: Qualitative Research
Semiannual Publication: Section on Research Newsletter.

Sports Physical Therapy
Web site: www.spts.org
Publications: Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy (JOSPT) (available online since 1994) and North American Journal of Sports Physical Therapy.

Women's Health
Web site: www.womenshealthapta.org
Triennial publications: Journal of the Section on Women's Health and Highlights in Women's Health.