The new issue of Physical Therapy is in PubMed now – Jun 6; [Epub ahead of print]
As usual, click on the right side “Top Physiotherapy Journals – Current Tables of Contents” link to view the list of seven top physio journals, and click on the title to view the latest articles from there.
Alternatively, click below to view the last issue of :
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Here is a new study by Dutch physios published in the May issue of BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2007 May 22;8:45.
The purpose was to investigate the ability to adherence to recommendations of the guideline Acute ankle injury, and to identify patient characteristics that determine adherence to the guideline. Interesting….there are so many good quality guidelines out there, however, do patients follow them closely?
The authors found that: “Adherence to individual recommendations varied from 71% to 100%. In 99 patients (57%) the physiotherapists showed adherence to all indicators. Adherence to preset maximum of six treatment sessions for patients with severe ankle injury was 81% (132 patients).”
The writers concluded that: “Adherence to the clinical guideline Acute ankle sprain showed that the guideline is applicable in daily practice. Adherence to the guideline, even in a group of physiotherapists familiar with the guideline, showed possibilities for improvement. The necessity to exceed the expected number of treatment sessions may be explained by co-morbidity and recurrent sprains. It is not clear why female patients were treated with more sessions. Experience of the physiotherapist reduced the number of treatment sessions. Quality indicators may be used for audit and feedback as part of the implementation strategy.”
Read the whole thing in free full text here.
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The Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Sciences Group has published a new free issue of their newsletter a couple of weeks ago.
Please read the Volume 3 Issue 3 here.
In particular, take a look on “Cutaneous Innervation, Skin Ligaments, and Small Scale Neurodynamics” piece by Diane Jacobs
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This is our Friday fun and learn for today….we are going to learn more about RSS feeds today. You have seen my article in the PABC newsletter, and might have even read a specific article that I wrote last year on RSS and health literature – “Introducing Web 2.0: weblogs and podcasting for health librarians”
In a nutshell, you will use RSS feeds to collect all new info that comes from all over the web in one place – your online RSS reader!
Today, take a couple of minutes to take a look on that simple video that explain RSS in regular language.
Have fun!
The new issues of those two journals were out last week. As usual, click on the right side “Top Physiotherapy Journals – Current Tables of Contents” link to view the last issues.
Alternatively, click below to view the last issues of :
* The Australian journal of physiotherapy
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Yours truly has been awarded the “Emerging Leader” award by the Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA) during the annual 2007 conference last week in Ottawa.
It is a great honour for me indeed, particularly being nominated by my colleagues!
It was also a great pleasure to see a colleague/friend/mentor of mine – Dean Giustini to be awarded the Canadian Hospital Librarian of the Year award by CHLA! He deserves it so truly!
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I just finished presenting a paper for the Canadian health librarians at the CHLA annual conference 2007.
There has been lots of interest for the topic indeed.
Take a look on my presentation slides (we actually showed this stuff live, but the powerpoint will give you the sense of what was there).
For more info , take a look on Dean Giustini and mine session on the same topic on our wiki
On Monday, May 28th, Dean Giustini and I have presented a 3.5 hours workshop for the Canadian health librarians on using social software in health libraries.
We have a wiki with the full topic coverage here.
Moreover, here is our short powerpoint (note to RSS readers – this is an embedded PPT)
Our sense was that the workshop was useful and was well received by the librarians in the audience. We will also receive an official feedback soon 🙂
My paper on Web 2.0 tools in health library practice and outreach is to be presented tomorrow as well…
This is just a quick note that I am off to Ottawa to co-teach a workshop on social software for the Canadian health librarians and to attend and present at the 2007 Canadian Health Libraries Association conference.
I am not sure whether I would have enough time to blog during the next week – please bear with me and wait for more exciting stuff when I return.
Happy World Physiotherapy Congress 2007 to all by the way – Vancouver is waiting for you with lots of sun! I will be attending only one day upon my return 🙂
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Rachael Lowe, a physio from UK is coordinating a number of physical therapy blogs that could be of interest to you:
Says Rachael: “The aim of Physiospot is to provide a set of research article blogs that allow physiotherapists to easily stay up to date with current research in their area of interest.”
Take a look yourself 🙂
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