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Web 2.0 in health – a practical overview

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.

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Supporting Women Living With Chronic Pain – videocast of a workshop by Neil Pearson

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Two weeks ago, B.C. Physiotherapist Neil Pearson presented a workshop “Overcome Pain, Live Well Again” during the Global Day Against Pain in Women on October 15, 2007.

This 3 hours education session, according to Neil’s website:
1. provides information to improve understanding of pain, chronic pain and pain self-management techniques.
2. is based on current understanding of pain science, as well as research evidence that understanding pain promotes recovery from chronic pain.

The videocast of this session is now available online via the The Canadian Pain Coalition website (divided into three parts) :

1. Part I

2. Part II

3. Part III

Note: Those files are pretty large and it might take some time for your computer to download them, depending on your connection.

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Canadian Society of Association Executives (BC) award goes to……….us :)

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Canadian Society of Association Executives (BC) has recently announced their 2007 awards and guess who has won the “new program” award…

Here is a short article from Business in Vancouver (thank you for allowing us to post it here) about us winning the award.

It is a really nice article to be written about librarians, what we do, and how a medical librarian can help busy clinicians – I loved it – thanks Grant!

** Photo by Gabisa Motonia

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New issues of Physical Therapy and Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy are in PubMed now

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I am back from offering some workshops in The Kootenays in British Columbia Interior. I have been to Trail, Nelson, and Cranbrook.

Fantastic views, great people, lovely weather 😉 Many thanks to Brian Riemer, Kirby Epp, Denise Uhrynuk, and Shawndelle Hanna for organizing the venues, host us and drive us around – it was really appreciated!!

Now, back to our literature, the new issues of Physical Therapy (2007 Oct 16) and Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy (2007 Sep;37(9)) are online in PubMed.

As usual, to view the table of contents of both journals, click on the “Top Physiotherapy Journals – Current Tables of Contents” link on the right hand side of this blog, scroll down to the appropriate journal’s title and click on it – a new window with the most recent table of contents will open up with your results.

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Workshops in Kootenays, BC – this weekend

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PABC CEO – Rebecca B. Tunnacliffe, President – Meena Sran and I are going to the Kootenays this weekend.

I will be offering two workshops in Nelson and Cranbrook:

1. “Staying up-to-date with your practice – current awareness for health professionals” . See the workshop handout in PDF format here. Alternatively, read it embedded below:

2. “PABC library for physiotherapists”. This workshop will cover the quick-and-dirty searches in CINAHL, Evidence Based Medicine Reviews, PsychInfo, and SportDiscus databases. See the handout for this session in PDF format here. Alternatively, view it embedded below:

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Ergonomic and physiotherapeutic interventions for treating work-related complaints of the arm, neck or shoulder in adults. A Cochrane systematic review.

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Here is a new research paper – September 2007 from Eura Medicophys, titled – “Ergonomic and physiotherapeutic interventions for treating work-related complaints of the arm, neck or shoulder in adults. A Cochrane systematic review.”

This review examines : “whether conservative interventions have a significant impact on outcomes for work-related complaints of the arm, neck or shoulder in adults.”

The authors concluded that:

There is limited evidence for the effectiveness of keyboards with an alternative force-displacement of the keys or an alternative geometry, and limited evidence for the effectiveness of exercises compared to massage, breaks during computer work compared to no breaks; massage as an add-on treatment to manual therapy, and manual therapy as an add-on treatment to exercises.

Read the full text of this review here.

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Friday Fun – Visions de l’an 2000

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Here is a curation at The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). There is a wonderful online gallery of illustrations by Villemard from 1910 imagining what life would be like in the year 2000.

http://expositions.bnf.fr/utopie/feuill/index.htm

It is fascinating to see that folks in the early 20th century did not even imagine the things human race has developed so fast…

So, how things will look like in 2100?

** Photo by Amir Fathi

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New issue of Nociception? – the newsletter by the Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Sciences Group

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The newest issue of Nociception? – the Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Sciences Group newsletter is online on their website now – Volume 3 Issue 5

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Effectiveness of physiotherapy exercise after knee arthroplasty for osteoarthritis: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

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This is a very recent article published in the venerable BMJ – 2007 Sep 20. The authors wanted to evaluate the effectiveness of physiotherapy exercise after elective primary total knee arthroplasty in patients with osteoarthritis.

This is a high quality study – systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

The UK-based authors concluded that: “Interventions including physiotherapy functional exercises after discharge result in short term benefit after elective primary total knee arthroplasty. Effect sizes are small to moderate, with no long term benefit.”

Please read the free full text on the BMJ site here.

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Did you know? Globalization, education and information technology video

Here is an excellent short (8min.) video that may lead you to think more about your kids’ and even your own education and future opportunities.

World is indeed is getting smaller, more connected and ironically more complicated.

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