This guide introduces you to library services and resources to support your academic studies and research.
Guide to Physical Therapist Practice
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Guide to Physical Therapist Practice 3.0 by Call Number: https://guide.apta.org/Publication Date: current
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Key Resources: Databases for Physical Therapy Research
Pedro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database)
Freely accessible database of 40,000+ randomized trials, systematic reviews, clinical practice guidelines.
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AccessPhysiotherapy Including F.A. Davis Physical Therapy Collection ( (McGraw Hill Medical)For physical therapy education, features learning tools such as video demonstrations, image slides, online dissection, and quizzes. includes a cadaver dissection tool, modalities & therapeutic goals, search core topics for interventions, functional limitations, and more.
Includes collection of 29 top F.A. Davis physical therapy e-books, fully searchable and continuously updated.
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SPORTDiscus with Full Text (EBSCOhost)Comprehensive, authoritative source of literature for journals covering sports medicine, physical therapy, kinesiology, exercise science, orthopedics, nutrition, physical education. Includes 670+ full-text journals; conference proceedings. 1930 to the present.
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Embase (Elsevier)An up-to-date biomedical research database covering the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day with more than 32+ million records from 8,200 journals and ‘grey literature’ from over 2.4 million conference abstracts. Embase includes unique non-English content and coverage of the most important types of evidence, such as randomized controlled trials, controlled clinical trials, Cochrane reviews and meta-analyses.
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CINAHL CompleteIndexing and abstracts for 5,500 journals in nursing and 17 allied health disciplines, including physical therapy and rehabilitation from 1937 to the present.
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Clinical Tools
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ClinicalKeyaccess to over 900 top books, over 500 top journals, thousands of videos and millions of images.
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LexicompLexicomp provides clear, concise, point-of-care drug information, including dosing, administration, warnings and precautions, as well as clinical content, such as clinical practice guidelines, IV compatibility from Trissel's 2 Clinical Pharmaceutics Database, and other tools.
Access resources include:
- textbooks,
- cases,
- self-assessments,
- drug content
In addition to Access Physiotherapy we have the others below.
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AccessAnesthesiologyincludes cases, self-assessments, practice guidelines, and a drug database.
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AccessMedicineincludes videos by system & category, self-assessment, case files, diagnostic tools, --- ability to download content to a mobile device.
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AccessPharmacyincludes drug monographs, lab tests, calculators, videos, case studies, and more.
Mobile versions available for AccessMedicine & AccessPharmacy.
Additional Guides of Interest
There are other guides that you might find useful, depending on specific areas of interest. A few are listed here but even more exist.
Bates
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Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examinationpresents a step-by-step approach to patient treatment, current examination techniques, and normal and abnormal findings, including more than 8 hours of head-to-toe...
