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Announcing the Electronic Health Library of BC for Physiotherapy Association of British Columbia (PABC) members

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Finally, after weeks of preparations and working on details, we are happy to announce that the Electronic Health Library of BC (eHLbc) is available to all Physiotherapy Association of British Columbia members starting with September 1st.

eHLbc is a collection of online health library resources. The purpose of the eHLbc is to support and improve practice, education, and research in the health sciences.

This is how PABC members will get access to all our resources from any computer with Internet connection (remember – this blog is public, you will need to login to PABC members only site to access eHLbc databases and full text):

1. Go to PABC website – http://www.bcphysio.org
2. Log in with your CPA username and password
3. Click on the Library Services category (third from the top on the left)
4. Click on Databases and Full Text category
5. You will see a list with all our databases and full text, click on the appropriate title to go in and start searching
6. See tips and tutorials for our resources on the Tutorials and Training page under Library Services

What is available to PABC members in this package?

1. CINAHL with Full-text: CINAHL is a database combined with full-text articles covering the fields of nursing, rehabilitation sciences, allied health, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, and consumer health. This is a very good resource for physiotherapy and related topics. It covers unique physiotherapy journals not indexed in PubMed, such as Physiotherapy Canada or Physiotherapy. Moreover, this database includes the following physiotherapy journals in full text: Physiotherapy Canada (01/01/2004 to present), Physical Therapy (01/01/2000 to present), Physiotherapy Research International (03/01/2000 to present), Physiotherapy Theory & Practice (03/01/1999 to present), Physical Therapy Reviews (03/01/2003 to present), and many more. This is one of the most important resources that PABC members get access to via eHLbc.

2. EBMR (Evidence Based Medicine Reviews): This one is very exciting! You may all know that in medicine and health sciences, there is a move towards Evidence Based Practice. This is the resource that summarizes much of the evidence out there. EBMR includes the following databases: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (full-text); Database of Reviews of Abstracts of Effectiveness (full-text abstracts); Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (not full text); ACP Journal Club (full-text). In essence, it means that from now on PABC members have full-text access to all Cochrane reviews! Easy to search and browse, this is certainly the most important resource in Evidence Based Practice in today’s health sciences.

3. PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES: For those of you who deal with psychosocial aspect of health in their work, those are extremely important databases. PsychINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations in the fields of psychology and other social sciences. PsycARTICLES contains full-text articles in general psychology and some allied health – very good coverage.

4. SPORTDiscus with Full Text [TRIAL]: This is a comprehensive international database that covers all aspects of sport and fitness, including: individual and team sports, coaching, exercise physiology, sports medicine, physical fitness, physical education, biomechanics, recreation and leisure, psychology, sociology, history, law, facilities and equipment. This is an excellent resource for all of PABC members practicing sports and orthopedic physiotherapy.

5. EBSCO Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Edition: This is a full text collection of journals covering such disciplines as clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pre-clinical sciences and the health care system. It includes some related full text journals with lots of physiotherapy coverage, such as Sports Medicine, Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine and many more.

6. LWW Total Access Journal Collection: This is another full text collection of health sciences journals containing essential core journals to specialized resources in such areas as medicine, nursing, and life sciences. Some very useful journals with lots of physiotherapy coverage, like BMJ or Spine are included there is full text!

Any questions? Please let me know!

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Fibromyalgia – article in the American Family Physician

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Here is an excellent review article about fibromyalgia published in July 15, 2007 issue of American Family Physician. It provides a great overview of this condition that is frequently treated by physiotherapists.

The article says that: “Although there are no guidelines for treatment, there is evidence that a multidimensional approach with patient education, cognitive behavior therapy, exercise, physical therapy, and pharmacologic therapy can be effective.”

Read the article in full text here .

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New issue of Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy is online in PubMed

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The newest issue of Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy, 2007 Jul;37(7) is online is PubMed now.

As usual, you can view it from the appropriate section on the blog – “Top Physiotherapy Journals – Current Tables of Contents” and click on the journal’s title or click on the journal title below:

The Journal of orthopaedic and sports physical therapy

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Friday Learn – Origins of Life and the Universe – webcast from the US Library of Congress

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This is an unusual post for my Friday Fun and Learn series. This time I would like to share with you a very nice webcast by the Library of Congress, titled – “Origins of Life and the Universe”

TITLE: On the Origins of Life and the Universe

SPEAKER: John Mather, Craig Mello
EVENT DATE: 07/26/2007
RUNNING TIME: 136 minutes

DESCRIPTION:

Two 2006 Nobel Prize winners addressed the fundamental questions pondered by many through the ages: the origins of life and the universe. The event, “On the Origins of Life and the Universe: An Afternoon with 2006 Nobel Laureates Craig Mello and John Mather,” was sponsored by the John W. Kluge Center and the Science, Business and Technology Division of the Library of Congress, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Launch the webcast here.

Enjoy!

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New issue of Pediatric Physical Therapy is online in PubMed

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The newest issue of Pediatric Physical Therapy, 2007 Fall;19(3) is online is PubMed now.

As usual, you can view it from the appropriate section on the blog – “Top Physiotherapy Journals – Current Tables of Contents” and click on the journal’s title or click on the journal title below:

* Pediatric physical therapy : the official publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association

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Physiotherapist-Directed Exercise, Advice, or Both for Low Back Pain

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Annals of internal Medicine regularly publishes a series of Summaries for Patients – “a service provided by Annals to help patients better understand the complicated and often mystifying language of modern medicine.”

The June issue dealt with – “Physiotherapist-Directed Exercise, Advice, or Both for Low Back Pain”

I want to share this one with you since you certainly have these savvy patients (like me) that go to their health professional armed with a recent body of evidence to justify their health care decisions 🙂 Take a look on the full text here.

See all Annals series of Summaries for patients here (in PubMed)

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Friday Fun and Learn – Social Bookmarking in Plain English

Let’s be a bit serious this Friday. This is another excellent video from the CommonCraft team, this time about using social bookmarking while working on the Web.

Personally, I use del.icio.us for years now and find it incredibly useful in organizing my web browsing online.

** RSS readers – there is a video embedded in this post…

For more comprehensive and health sciences oriented review of this subject, you can also take a look on an article Michelle Purdon and I published last year:

Barsky E, Purdon M. Introducing web 2.0: Social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians. J CAN HEALTH LIBR ASSOC. 2006;27:65-67.

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New issue of Physical Therapy is online in PubMed

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The newest issue of Physical Therapy , 2007 Aug 7; [Epub ahead of print] is online is PubMed now.

As usual, you can view it from the appropriate section on the blog – “Top Physiotherapy Journals – Current Tables of Contents” and click on the journal’s title or click on the journal title below:

* Physical Therapy

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Tendon and Ligament Repairs in the Foot and Ankle >> Live surgery webcast from the University of California-San Diego

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Have you wondered about how a surgery for Tendon and Ligament Repairs in the Foot and Ankle looks like.

Here is your chance. Here is the webcast of the operation from the University of California-San Diego, San Diego, CA, (5/3/2006), generously provided by the US National Library of Medicine.

You will need RealPlayer to view the program. If you do not have Real Player, you will be prompted to obtain a free download of the software before you view the presentation. You can download the RealPlayer media player at www.real.com. The videos open in a second window. If you have a pop-up blocker, you will need to disable it to view the programs.

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Physiotherapy wait times too long – CPA press release

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Canadian Physiotherapy Association has issued a press release on Thursday, August 09, 2007 about waiting times for physiotherapy in Ontario.

Some 3,000 family physicians and 1,100 physiotherapists from Ontario were surveyed to identify how funding and wait times act as barriers to accessing physiotherapy services by researchers at the Arthritis Community Research and Evaluation Unit and University of Toronto.

Some numbers reported:

64% Unacceptable – Number of physicians who felt wait times for rehabilitation were unacceptable

3.6x Longer waits – Wait times for publicly funded physiotherapy treatments were 3.6 times longer than for privately funded treatments

150 Days – The longest reported wait for physiotherapy services

17% Now without access – Access to rehabilitation services has likely deteriorated since the time of the initial study due to the delisting of physiotherapy services at Schedule 5 clinics. A subsequent study found that 17.7 per cent of patients who required physiotherapy services did not receive treatment because they were uninsured or were not able to pay privately.

10x Better health with access to physiotherapy – The same follow-up study found that individuals who received required physiotherapy services were 10 times as likely to report having good health compared to those who did not receive required services.

The press release quotes Dr. Michel D. Landry, President of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association who says that:

“This study signals that access to physiotherapy and rehabilitation services has reached a critical point in the last five years.”

“Poor access to necessary rehabilitative services is an issue across Canada, the consequences of which will be detrimental to the overall health status of Canadians, especially as the population continues to age, and as the incidence of chronic diseases such as arthritis increase at an alarming pace”

Take a look on the Ottawa Citizen article following the press release. The press release is not on the CPA website yet, however, since Natalie Bovair, CPA’s Director of Communications has kindly forwarded it to me I attach it here in PDF format.

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