This recent article from December 22, 2007 issue of BMJ discusses some medical myths that are popular in health and try to rediscover the medical truth 🙂
Read the full text article fro BMJ here
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Author: Eugene Barsky
The latest issue of Nociception? – the Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Sciences Group newsletter is available on their website – Vol. 3, no. 6 (PDF, 350KB)
Have fun reading!
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Happy Holidays!
Just a quick note to our readers to wish you very happy holiday season! Peace and love!
Eugene
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Many people in the physio community ask me what is a blog and why I blog? I am grateful to Lee and Sachi LeFever for an excellent intro that I could refer my users to when they ask me this question again 🙂
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The latest issue of the Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy is available online on their website now. What I like about this journal is that it provides part of its content using the open access approach – free of charge to any therapists that care to type the journal URL into their browsers.
Says Peter Huijbregts – the editor-in-chief of this journal:
The open-access material for this issue includes a case report by Borgerding et al describing the us of the patellar-pubic percussion test (http://jmmtonline.com/documents/v15n4/BorgerdingV15N4E.pdf) and a research paper by Tucker et al on the reliability and measurement error of a modified slump test (http://jmmtonline.com/documents/v15n4/TuckerV15N4E.pdf). Other free online content accessible at http://jmmtonline.com/current/ includes the editorial, book and multimedia reviews, a thesis review, and letters to the editor.
Take a look yourself
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The latest issue of Pediatric Physical Therapy 2007 Winter;19(4) is online in PubMed now. As usual, you can view the latest table of contents of this (and other physio journals) by clicking the “Top Physiotherapy Journals – Current Tables of Contents” link on the right side of the page, browse the journal names and click on the one you need.
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It has been a long time since I took any vacation in the last four years. Having all my vacation days accumulating and accumulating, I have to take lots of them now and I will be away till mid-December 2007.
Spending this time with my family abroad, I won’t be posting on this blog till I come back – I apologize for that!
See you all soon!
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Our University of Toronto colleagues have a wonderful online collection to share. It features approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy selected from the Jason A. Hannah and Academy of Medicine collections in the history of medicine at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
There are ninety-five individual titles represented, ranging in date from 1522 to 1867.
You can browse this collection by body region, view the highlights, or just search the plates .
View this collection online here.
Thanks to David Rothman for the link!
The latest issue of the Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy is in PubMed now – 2007 Oct;37(10)
As usual, you can view the latest table of contents of this (and other physio journals) by clicking the “Top Physiotherapy Journals – Current Tables of Contents” link on the right side of the page, browse the journal names and click on the one you need.
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Today, I presented two 1.5 hours workshops for the British Columbia Ministry of Health and British Columbia Ministry of Children and Family Development on Web 2.0 in health.
Here is my presentation in PDF format. Below is my presentation embedded in this post.
We had good discussions and brainstorming at the end of the sessions with the ministries folks on how those social technologies could be used in their everyday work and how they might impact their professional and personal lives.
I enjoyed the audience and found folks working in the ministries to be engaging and innovative.
Many thanks to my colleagues and friends whose work and ideas contributed to this presentation: Dean Giustini, Sally Taylor, Lindsay Ure, Katherine Miller, Susan Atkey, Sheryl Adam, David Rothman, Simon Neame, and many others! Please also note the reference list at the end of presentation for further follow-up.