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Main Physiotherapy and Web 2.0 Research Top Physiotherapy Journals - Current Tables of Contents

Top Physio journals alerts – current awareness

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We all want to stay up-to-date with our area of expertise, aren’t we? We all want to see the last research in our field. However, many of us don’t have time and money to do that properly.

Till today!

From today, you have a one stop latest physio research update on our blog. Below, you will see the latest articles published in each of the seven major physiotherapy journals: Physical therapy, Physiotherapy Canada, The Australian Journal of Physiotherapy, Physiotherapy, Physiotherapy Research International, Pediatric Physical Therapy, and The Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy.

Scroll down the list to find the journal title, click on it, and you will see all articles published in its last issue. Isn’t it pretty cool? The list is dynamic and updates itself automatically when the new content is published.

If you want technicalities, all that is done by RSS feeding from PubMed and CINAHL databases for relevant journals. The moment those articles go online – they appear here on our pages!

Don’t like coming to the blog for the updates? No problems. If you are a PABC member, take a look on the list of the journals below, and let me know by email if you want to receive a table of contents of the most recent journal issue. I will be getting the table of contents the same moment that journal is indexed in PubMed and could forward it to you right away!

Does it make sense? Is it helpful? Drop me a note or leave a comment below.

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Click on the journal title to display the latest table of contents:

Are we having fun yet?

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Friday Fun – Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

** For RSS readers, please note that there is a video embedded in this post

Today’s video would talk mostly to those physios who are pretty comfortable with technology, and my colleagues – librarians who read this blog.

However, those folks in clinical practice – please take a look on this short video created by a cultural anthropology prof – Matt Wesch to see what kind of digital world we have to work in even now, not even mentioning our children…I don’t even imagine how that world will look like when my daughter – Tal (who is ten months old tomorrow 🙂 grows up……interesting times just ahead of us….

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Have a sunny and peaceful weekend everybody!

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Visual Guide to Physical Examination (streaming video)

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Here is a series of streaming video tutorials and illustrations to aid the teaching of physical examination techniques broken out by anatomical area or system from California State University, Dominguez Hill College of Health and Human services >> http://sohstream.csudh.edu/netmedia/content/AVisualGuidetoPhysicalExamination.aspx

You need to click on the body system to see the list of the movies – the resource is fast and the videos are of great quality!

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Thanks to David Rothman for heads up.

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Audiocasts / Podcasts Main Physiotherapy and Web 2.0

New Audiocast -> Qualitative Evidence in Practice: Appraising Evidence Developed Using Qualitative Inquiry

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Here is a pretty new audiocast we recorded on March 8, 2007 as a part of the BC RSRnet Evidence Based practice series. This is session #5.

The session is presented by Dr. Judith Lynam, from UBC School of Nursing, who is Co-Director of Culture, Gender & Health Research Unit.

Not being a particularly ardent devotee of Qualitative research, I have to admit that this session is really engaging, and gives lots of good insight! Maybe because it is presented by a nursing professor (with me having a huge respect for this profession – well…I should – my wife – Elina Barsky is a nurse 🙂

You can access this particular session here – http://hdl.handle.net/2429/100

Alternatively, you can access all UBC Barber Learning Centre audiocasts this way:

1. Go to https://dspace.library.ubc.ca
2. Click on “Library” link under “Communities in DSpace”
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 link to listen to an audiocast and view the presentations in PDF format.

Have fun!

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Mastering Google for Health Information – The Very Quick Guide> Online tutorial

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Some time ago, I played with the trial version of Captivate software to create a quick guide about using Google to locate reliable health information.

This tutorial is also a part of the educational suite of tutorials that we will release soon with our new website (with Consumer Health component).

Here is the end result. It is possible to view the tutorial in two different ways:

1. Download it to your machine as a stand-alone version. The tutorial is approx. 4MB and will run itself if you double-click on it. Here is the link. Personally, I would actually prefer this option, since you save the tutorial for any future reference on your machine.

2. Run it in a browser window – any browser should work. Here is the link. The tutorial will open a new browser window and will run automatically.

Please let me know your thoughts and remarks about this short (12 min.) tutorial. Was it helpful? Too long? Too short?

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Main Physiotherapy and Web 2.0 Presentations

Presentation on Weblogging in UBC

Yesterday, I was one of the panelists at the latest UBC webloggers salon, which was very interesting indeed with profs from Education and Latin American Studies departments dealing with interesting angles of blogging. I was stuck with the technicalities – as usual 🙂

Here is my presentation I did for the UBC audience.

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New Audiocast > Evidence Based Practice. How do I know the research is any good? Step 2: How to appraise the literature (Qualitative articles – theory session)

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Here is an interesting audiocast we recorded last week. Wendy Hall from the UBC School of Nursing is discussing Evidence Based Practice from the Qualitative perspective.

As usual, you can access all UBC Barber Learning Centre audiocasts this way:

1. Go to https://dspace.library.ubc.ca
2. Click on “Library” link under “Communities in DSpace”
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 link to listen to an audiocast and view the presentations in PDF format.

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New Audiocast >> Evidence Based Practice – Step 2 – Appraising the Evidence: How do I know the article is any good? How to appraise the literature (Quantitative articles – practical session).

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Here is the audiocast of the January 2007 BCRSRnet workshop on Evidence Based Practice in Rehab Sciences. The session was presented by Alison Hoens and Sandy Leznoff, both from the Providence Health Care in Vancouver, BC >>> http://hdl.handle.net/2429/97

Please note that in addition to the audio files and the PDF of the seminar, I included a VERY NICE worksheet -developed by Alison Hoens on Appraisal of a quantitative articles, which I personally found very useful.

As usual, to find all our audiocasts in one place follow the steps below:

1. Go to https://dspace.library.ubc.ca
2. Click on “Library” link under “Communities in DSpace”
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 link to listen to an audiocast and view the presentations in PDF format.

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Audiocasts / Podcasts Main Physiotherapy and Web 2.0 Workshops

New podcast – Evidence Based Practice – Step 2 – Appraising the Evidence: So how do I know that this article is any good?

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Here is the podcast of the December 2006 workshop, done by Alison Hoens and Maggie McIlwaine for the BC RSRnet -> http://hdl.handle.net/2429/95

To remind you, The BC Rehabilitation Sciences Research Network (BC RSRnet) is a volunteer organization of occupational and physical therapists in British Columbia with a mission to generate new knowledge through rehabilitation science research that enables people with varying abilities to participate fully in life. Their focus for 2006/7 is knowledge translation: facilitating OT’s and PT’s to put research into practice. We , at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC are supporting this initiative while recording and hosting the files.

This session would be of particular interest to the folks interested in Quantitative part of the health research, Alison is a gifted presenter, it is worth spending those three hours listening – there is lots to learn!

The next session to be podcasting is How do I know the article is any good? Step 2: How to appraise the literature (Quantitative articles – practical session). We hope to put it online in mid-January.

Have fun listening, and don’t forget to open the PDF version of the presentation when you listen… Alison walks you step by step.

As usual, you can access all Physio podcasts I recorded, using those simple steps:

Here is the detailed “how-to” to get all our podcasts in one place:

1. Go to https://dspace.library.ubc.ca
2. Click on “Library” link under “Communities in DSpace”
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 link to listen to a podcast or see the presentation in PDF format.

Enjoy listening!

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“How Web 2.0 is changing medicine” – article in BMJ

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A dear colleague and a friend of mine – Dean Giustini – a biomedical librarian in UBC (now on sabbatical) has published a very interesting editorial in the venerable BMJ a couple of weeks ago about Web 2.0.

Dean is a great believer in a medical wikipedia – a database freely accessible and continually updated by doctors—as a low cost alternative to commercial point of care tools like UpToDate.

There are numerous points in this short editorial that are worth mentioning (in addition to the citation to one of the articles yours truly published last year about the topic).

To explore the area of Web 2.0 take a look on some of the articles I wrote last year for the Journal of the Canadian Health Library Association:

1. Barsky E., & Purdon M. “Introducing Web 2.0: Social networking and social bookmarking”. JCHLA , 27 (3), 65-67
2. Barsky E. “Introducing Web 2.0: Webloging and podcasting for health librarians”. JCHLA , 27 (2), 33-34
3. Barsky E. “Introducing Web 2.0: RSS trends for health librarians”. JCHLA, 27 (1), 7-8.
4. Giustini D, & Barsky E. “A look at Google Scholar, PubMed and Scirus: comparisons and recommendations”. JCHLA, 26 (3), 85-89.

Moreover, take a look on a category on our blog labeled Physiotherapy and Web 2.0, where I keep discussing those issues.

Here is the full text of the BMJ article. Enjoy!

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