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Farewell to the Physio-Blog: final confession from a reluctant blogger

The Physio-Blog is officially shutting down. I’ve been trying to find a place for blogging even since I took over as PABC librarian last year, but admittedly without much success. I was hoping to maintain the blog started by former librarian Eugene Barsky, but quickly realized that learning about a new field and blogging about it didn’t make sense to me. As a relative newcomer to health related librarianship I simply don’t feel expert enough (yet) to blog to the physio community. There you go, I probably should have admitted this months ago!

So, to the broader community I would like to thank all readers who took the time to visit the blog since its introduction in 2006. In the coming weeks this site will be permanently removed from the UBC server where it is currently hosted. Until then, I can be reached at librarian@bcphysio.org if you have any questions or comments about the blog.

PABC members will have continued access to many of the resources found here through the PABC website. Please visit for a complete listing of library services and for access to the PABC eLibrary.

All the best!
Suzanne

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ta ta for now – Eugene Barsky’s departure and the physio blog

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This is my saddest post on this blog. Well – because this is my last one. I was offered and decided to accept a new tenured track librarian position with the Science and Engineering Library, University of British Columbia.

It means that I will not continue my blogging here. The newly hired librarian – Aditi Gupta – will be holding the fort and keep updating you as for the news in physiotherapy informatics.

The blog does not die – which is a very good thing for me 🙂

I decided to omit the name of the University of British Columbia from the blog’s title, since it will not continue to be affiliated with the university where I work…

I will greatly miss all British Columbia physios I worked with during the recent years – amazing group of people! I enjoyed it so much! Thank you to hundreds of you who used our library services. Thank you for all your kudos and for being such a great users group – you are a dream of every professional librarian!!

Thank you also to all physical therapists out there that came to read our blog more than 102,000 times during the last two years. Thank you for spending the time with us. I hope you found something useful while being here.

Thank you to all health librarians who came to use our blog as a learning tool and as an example of outreaching to a diverse community of users. I have always appreciated your feedback and respected your opinions.

Particular thank you to those individuals that inspired me and served as my mentors, colleagues and friends: Dean Giustini, Sally Taylor, Lindsay Ure, Katherine Miller, Susan Atkey, Sheryl Adam, David Rothman, Simon Neame, Mark Rabnett, Barbara Saint, Charlotte Beck, Lee Ann Bryant, Aleteia Greenwood, Allan Cho, Brian Lamb. A particular big thank you to the Physiotherapy Association of BC CEO – Rebecca Tunnacliffe, who ALWAYS supported me and my work with the physiotherapists!!

Ta Ta for Now – we are all off to new adventures 🙂

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Celebrating 100,000 page views on the blog

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Today is a special day for our blog. We just had our 100,000 page view this morning. It means that our blog pages were viewed by different folks that many times!

I just hope that at least half of those visitors found something useful on our pages!!

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New tutorial – “Getting the full text from the PABC library”

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I just uploaded this new tutorial to the Web – “Getting the full text from the PABC library“. The tutorial guides the Physiotherapy of British Columbia (PABC) members as for how to obtain full text articles from the PABC electronic library.

Click here to view this tutorial in your browser.

** Photo by Steve Rhodes

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New Rehab Sciences podcasts from Sunny Hill Health Centre, BC Children’s Hospital

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Sunny Hill Health Centre, BC Children’s Hospital rehab therapists kindly share this content with the broader audience.

All sessions were recorded in 2007 and are of potential interest to pediatric PTs, OTs and other rehabilitation professionals.

As usual, you can use the green gadget below to listen to the audiocasts right away, or follow the links below to view the actual presentations and listen/download the audio part of the presentations.

New audiocasts:

Boredom: More than "Nothing to Do"

Presenters: Clark, Mary

 PDF AUDIO
Best Practices for Trasporting Infants and Children with Special Needs

Presenters: Meades, Wendy

 PDF AUDIO
Standardized Tests – a participative workshop

Presenters: Davis, Alexis;
Mayson, Tanja;
Stewart, Sue

 PDF AUDIO

Melatonin Therapy for the difficult sleep disorders of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities

 

Presenters: Jan, James

 

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As always, you can access all our podcasts this way:

1. Go to https://circle.ubc.ca
2. Click on “Library” link under “Communities in UBC cIRcle”
3. Click on “The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre” link
4. You will see a small search box. Click on “Titles” button to list all files by titles or “Authors” file to list all files by their authors
5. When opening a particular record, just click on the relevant links to listen to an audiocast and view the presentations in PDF format.

Thanks a lot to David Jordan from the Sunny Hill Health Centre for working with us to get this content online!!

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“Introducing Web 2.0: wikis for health librarians” – new article in JCHLA

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Published just a few hours ago, here is a new article by Dean Giustini and yours truly, this time about using wikis in health sciences:

Barsky E, Giustini D. Introducing Web 2.0: wikis for health librarians. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association. 2007 28(4): 147-150

Being a proponent of open-access publishing, I have to say that this journal is open access and you can view our article for free!

It was a great privilege and fun working with Dean – a super experienced health librarian who is also a mentor and a good friend. I have to admit that thanks to him – this is one of our best articles in the series so far!

It continues the series of articles I co-write with other medical librarians about using social software in health sciences:

1. Barsky E., & Cho A. Introducing Web 2.0: social search for health librarians. 2007. JCHLA , 28 (2), 59-61

2. Barsky E., & Purdon M. “Introducing Web 2.0: Social networking and social bookmarking”. 2006 JCHLA , 27 (3), 65-67

3. Barsky E. “Introducing Web 2.0: Webloging and podcasting for health librarians”. 2006. JCHLA , 27 (2), 33-34

4. Barsky E. “Introducing Web 2.0: RSS trends for health librarians”. 2006. JCHLA, 27 (1), 7-8.

5. Giustini D, & Barsky E. “A look at Google Scholar, PubMed and Scirus: comparisons and recommendations”. 2005. JCHLA, 26 (3), 85-89.

Have fun reading!!

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The physical therapy prescription – article from Dec. 2007 American Family Physician

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Here is a short article from Dec. 1, 2007 issue of an excellent (and free access) American Family Physician journal.

The article – “The Physical Therapy Prescription” claims that “family physicians should have some understanding of the various treatments and modalities used by physical therapists.”

An excellent overview for the docs!

Read the full text here .

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Library workshops for February – May 2008

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This is our combined 5 hours überworkshop that covers the following information tools and services:

* Mastering Google for Physiotherapists (1 hour workshop)
* Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists (1 hour workshop)
* Staying up-to-date with your practice – current awareness for health professionals (1/2 hour workshop)
* Lunch break – lunch is not provided – 1 hour
* PABC Library resources: CINAHL, Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR), PsychINFO, PsychARTICLES, and more (1 1/2 hours workshop)

If you have already attended our Google or PubMed workshops just skip them and come to the ones you need.

All workshops run on Saturdays on UBC campus in Point Grey – since this is the only place I can book a big enough computer lab to accommodate as many physios as I can from the Lower Mainland.

Here are some dates for February – May 2008:

1. CANCELED – Library workshop for physiotherapists – Sat 12 Apr 2008
10:30 AM – 3:30 PM, Koerner Library : Room 217 , View more info and register here.

2. CANCELED – Library workshop for physiotherapists – Sun 04 May 2008
10:30 AM – 3:30 PM, Koerner Library : Room 217 , View more info and register here.

The parking on campus is cheap on weekends. The closest parkade to the Koerner Library is Rose Garden Parkade – it is only one block away from the library. Here is the map.

I am looking forward to see as many of you as we can during those seminars!

** Photo by Travelin’ Librarian

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New issue of Physiotherapy is available via CINAHL database

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The latest issue of Physiotherapy is online now via the CINAHL database. 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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Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound and pulsed electromagnetic field in the treatment of tibial fractures: a systematic review

ultrasound machine

Here is an interesting study from the recent Journal of Athletic Training 2007 Oct-Dec;42(4):530-5 – “Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound and pulsed electromagnetic field in the treatment of tibial fractures: a systematic review”.

This systematic review aimed to: “compare the effects of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) or pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF) on fracture healing through a systematic review of original, English-language clinical research reports.”

Personally, I don’t like that fact that they didn’t do their searches on CINAHL – the second most important physiotherapy database that indexes many unique journals of the field – like Physiotherapy or Physiotherapy Canada. They also didn’t search EMBASE, which in essence, makes their systematic review not as systematic as they hoped!! It is not enough to search MEDLINE to do a systematic review, folks!

Anyway, their conclusions were: “The studies we included in our review were of generally high methodologic quality. The evidence suggests that LIPUS may speed healing of acute tibial fractures. Comparison studies of these modalities are needed to guide treatment of fractures sustained by athletic individuals.”

Take a look on the full text here.

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