Allied Health Subject Guide: Physical Therapy

Access to McGraw-Hill medical textbooks, videos, and self-assessment.

Access to McGraw-Hill physical therapy textbooks, videos, and self-assessment.

The Cumulative Index to Nurse and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) Plus with Full Text is a comprehensive research database for over 700 nursing and allied health journals indexed in the CINAHL database, and includes a higher number of records, additional journals, records dating back to 1937 and expanded content.

Evidence-based publications (evidence summaries, recommended practices, systematic reviews, etc.) for many medical, nursing, and health science specialties.

Hundreds of journals are available in Journals@Ovid and thousands of books are available in Books@Ovid.

Physiotherapy Evidence Database. PEDro is a free database of over 31,000 randomized trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.

Comprises more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central, publisher web sites, and LSHSL eJournal subscriptions.

Interdisciplinary citation and abstract database.

A clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. As well as research evidence other content types including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news.

PEDro is a free database of over 31,000 randomized trails, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.

An open access physical therapy wiki.

PTNow translates physical therapy knowledge into action, supports evidence-informed care, and helps clinicians improve their clinical decision making. PTNow promotes using the best available evidence to achieve optimal patient outcomes and enhances collaboration within the physical therapy profession.

This database was develop to help clinicians and researchers identify reliable and valid instruments used to assess patient outcomes during all phases of rehabilitation. The database provides evidence-based summaries that include concise descriptions of each instrument's psychometric properties, and instructions for administering and scoring each assessment as well as a representative bibliography with citations linked to PubMed abstracts.