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Physiotherapy podcasts have moved to a new home!

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Just a quick note that I have added some new podcasts in Rehab Sciences, for instance – “Introduction to Evidence- Based Practice. How do I get the best information quickly? Step 1: How to ask the question and quickly access the most relevant literature “.

We also migrated all our podcasts into our institutional repository @ UBC – https://dspace.library.ubc.ca/ – see under the Library or see the full list here – http://tinyurl.com/y6bx24

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.

Keep your audio devices handy – we have more Rehab Sciences podcasts coming, the next one – How do I know the article is any good? Step 2: How to appraise the literature (Quantitative articles – theory session). will be added in late December – stay tuned!

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New way to “contact me” on the blog – Instant Messaging

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There is a new way to contact me from the blog. I added a “Contact Me” window on the right side menu. If you type anything in it, I will promptly respond to you by instant messaging in the same window (if I am online at that time).

Just a note: our information and research services are intended to the Physiotherapy Association of British Columbia (PABC) members and University of British Columbia (UBC) faculty, students and staff, so if you require my research help – let me know whether you belong to one of those groups!

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PhysioSearch is alive! Using Google interface :)

PhysioSearch is alive!

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All some of you may have noticed our earlier version of the physiotherapy search engine is not with us any more.

I admit that I sinned – I switched to Google. I created a new version of a search engine for high quality physiotherapy information using Google customized search engine (Google Co-op).

How to search it?
The PhysioSearch is searchable from this blog. Just type your search terms in the search box found on the right upper part of the screen and a new window will open up with your search results which you would be able to narrow down by clicking on the labels on the upper part of your screen. Good luck – let me know how it works for you. It is also searchable from here – http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=009072055596341291981%3A7ldb1tpbl-w

Why I did it? Why switching from the previous Rollyo engine using Yahoo indexes?

Well, four (4) reasons mainly: 1) No ads – by using Google I eliminate all unwanted advertising that clutter our web results, so we don’t have any ads at all right now!; 2) Easier interface – many people are used to Google layout – so why not using it; 3) Number of sites indexed – with Rollyo tool I could use only 25 sites , with Google I am unlimited to use as much site as I want; and finally 4) Narrowing the results – with Google tool I can narrow the results by simply labelling them, so if you want Canadian content – sure , just click on the Canadian content link and there you go!

What’s included? The following sites were included in the current version of the search engine:

1. 129.78.28.173 – PEDro database – not working yet, I am working with PEDro to resolve this problem
2. www.ptjournal.org – Founded in 1921, Physical Therapy is the official publication of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and is an international, scholarly, peer-reviewed journal
3. www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus – MEDLINE Plus. MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.
4. www.canadian-health-network.ca – Canadian Health Network – The Canadian Health Network (CHN) is a national, bilingual health promotion program found on the Web at www.canadian-health-network.ca. The CHN’s goal is to help Canadians find the information they’re looking for on how to stay healthy and prevent disease.
5. www.csp.org.uk –The U.K. Chartered Society of Physiotherapy is the professional, educational and trade union body for the country’s 47,000 chartered physiotherapists, physiotherapy students and assistants.
6. www.hc-sc.gc.ca – Health Canada. Health Canada is the Federal department responsible for helping Canadians maintain and improve their health, while respecting individual choices and circumstances.
7. http://apa.advsol.com.au – Australian Physiotherapy Association. The Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) is the peak body representing the interests of Australian physiotherapists and their patients. The APA is a national organisation with non-autonomous state and territory branches and specialty subgroups
8. www.physiotherapy.ca – Canadian Physiotherapy Association. CPA is the national professional association representing almost 10,000 members distributed throughout all provinces and territories.
9. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez – PubMed
10. www.opa.on.ca – Ontario Physiotherapy Association
11. www.physiosa.org.za – South African Society of Physiotherapy
12. www.rehab.queensu.ca – School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen’s University
13. www.omni.ac.uk/subject-listing/WB460.html – U.K. OMNI gateway
14. www.bcphysio.org – PABC
15. www.cirrie.buffalo.edu – Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange – University of Buffalo
16. www.phac-aspc.gc.ca – Public Health Agency of Canada
17. www.ubc.ca – UBC
18. www.utoronto.ca – UofT
19. www.guidelines.gov – U.S. National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC), a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
20. bmj.bmjjournals.com – Venerable BMJ journal from UK
21. www.otseeker.com – OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy
22. www.cma.ca – Canadian Medical Association site
23. www.healthportal.gc.ca – The Canada Health Portal (CHP) is an internet site that provides Canadians with an authoritative and integrated view of health information and services from various government jurisdictions and organizations across Canada.
24. www.gov.bc.ca – All BC provincial government sites

More sites would be added after some evaluation process. Please do keep recommending sites!

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More Physio Podcasts – How to Make the Most of your Therapy: Putting Research into Practice!

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Starting with the next week, the BC Rehabilitation Sciences Research Network (BC RSRnet) is running a series of 6 workshops on How to Make the Most of your Therapy: Putting Research into Practice!

We , at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC are going to support the project by recording the seminars and providing those to all rehab practicing professional for free on the Web via podcasts, together with the speakers’ presentation. As usual, the podcasts would be available on this blog (under Podcasts category) and on the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre website.

For the record, 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. The group’s focus for 2006/7 is knowledge translation: facilitating OT’s and PT’s to put research into practice.

The group has prepared a series of workshops on how to access (Step 1), appraise (Step 2), and apply (Step 3) research evidence in clinical settings.

Here is how their workshops would look like:

1. Nov 9, 2006 – Introduction to BC RSRnet and Evidence- Based Practice. How do I get the best information quickly? Step 1: How to ask the question and quickly access the most relevant literature
Presenters:
Alison Hoens (Clinical Assistant Prof, UBC; Clinical Coordinator, PHC Physiotherapy) and Charlotte Beck (UBC Librarian)

2. Dec 14, 2006 – How do I know the article is any good? Step 2: How to appraise the literature (Quantitative articles – theory session).
Presenters:
Alison Hoens (Clinical Assistant Prof, UBC; Clinical Coordinator, PHC Physiotherapy)
Additional presenter – TBA

3. Jan 11, 2007 – How do I know the article is any good? Step 2: How to appraise the literature (Quantitative articles – practical session).
Presenters:
Alison Hoens (Clinical Assistant Prof, UBC; Clinical Coordinator, PHC Physiotherapy) and
Sandy Leznoff (Clinical Instructor, UBC, Clinical Coordinator, PHC Occupational Therapy)

4. Feb 8, 2007 – How do I know the research is any good? Step 2: How to appraise the literature (Qualitative articles – theory session).
Presenters:
Wendy Hall (Associate Professor, Nursing, UBC)

5. Mar 8, 2007- How do I know the article is any good? Step 2: How to appraise the literature (Qualitative articles – practical session).
Presenters:
TBA

6. Apr 12, 2007 – How do I apply research evidence in my clinical setting? Step 3: How to best integrate research evidence into practice.
Presenters:
Lori Roxborough (Associate Director, Therapy Department, Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children & Clinical Associate Professor UBC SRS) and
Linda Li (Assistant Professor, UBC SRS, Division of Physical Therapy)

The workshops are running in Vancouver, BC on the second Thursday of each month (November 2006 through April 2007) from 1:30 – 4:30 in St. Paul’s Hospital downtown.

Here is the workshops outline and the registration form.

Stay tuned for the podcasts of those seminars very soon!!

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UBC Master of Physical Therapy graduating students’ systematic reviews – Podcasts

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For the first time in UBC Rehab School, the graduating class of Master of Physical Therapy students has compiled systematic reviews of literature on eight (8) different topics in physiotherapy.

On Sep. 14-15, 2006, those systematic reviews were presented in Vancouver, BC for a wide audience of physiotherapists.

We, at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC, have recorded those as audio files and now are ready to share them with you. This is a collaboration mini-project with the Physiotherapy Association of British Columbia and The School of Rehabilitation Sciences , UBC and the UBC Library

Here, you will find all eight presentations (both PDF versions of the presentations themselves and audio files in mp3 format of their talks). Here is an alternative location– http://tinyurl.com/pzdqd

As far as I know, those are among the first podcasts in physiotherapy!

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Social Networks and Social Bookmarking in Health

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Another article by yours truly has been published in the last issue of J Can Health Libraries Assoc Volume 27, Number 3, Summer 2006, pp. 65-67, this time co-authored with Michelle Purdon from Saskatoon.

This article might be of interest to those of you with strong interest of implementing new Web 2.0 techologies into your daily health practice.

It continues my series of articles about Web 2.0 applications in health:

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

This article is open access and is available in PDF format for free here.

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Podcasts of the UBC’s Master of Physical Therapy students’ Systematic Review Presentations– Sep. 2006

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As some of you may already know UBC’s MPT students are presenting their systematic reviews reports in mid-September.

This year, we are planning to record the audio streams of the presentations (only for the teams that agree to do that, of course) and make audio (mp3) files of these presentations available to anyone to download and listen on the go (podcasts…).

Then, we are also planning to take the text versions of the presentations and upload these into a searchable system inside the institutional repository at UBC to create a fully searchable database of students systematic reviews with audio components – podcasts. However, we believe that this part would take us more time, as this might be a pilot project for the UBC institutional repository.

Here is the list of the presentations to be presented at the Vancouver’s GF Strong site on September 14-15, 2006:

• The Effects of Yoga on People with Arthritis: A Systematic Review
Presenters: Alana Giesbrecht, Erin Macri, Gabe Newman, Laura Werner. Supervisor: Marie Westby

• Neuromuscular Training & ACL Injury Prevention: A Systematic Review
Presenters: Christine Bialercowski, Sean Campbell, Sara Falkner, Jessica Owen, Alex Ward. Supervisors: Donna MacIntyre & Tyler Dumont

• Pain-enduring Eccentric Exercise for the Treatment of Chronic Achilles Tendinopathy
Presenters: Claire Dixon, Laureen Holloway, Teresa Lee, Nick Lo, Janice Meier. Supervisor: Darlene Reid

• Effects of Exercise on QOL in Women Living with Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review
Presenters: Deanna Bicego, Kathy Brown, Moraine Ruddick, Dara Storey, Corinne Wong. Supervisor: Susan Harris

• Effect of Manual Therapy on ROM Following Lateral Ankle Sprains: A Systematic Review
Presenters: Sarah Arscott, Patrick Dessaulles, Karen Hughes, Steven Kotzo, Rebecca Preto. Supervisor: Elizabeth Dean

• Effectiveness of Combined Vestibular Rehabilitation & Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Dizziness
Presenters: Bryan Cervant, Erica Haker, Shaila Jiwa, Rhonda Jori, April Pemble. Supervisor: Janice Eng

• Effectiveness of Constraint Therapy in Children with Hemiplegia: A Systematic Review
Presenters: Aman Dhaliwall, Michael Hales. Behnad Honarbakhsh, Meggan Hunt, Laura Peters. Supervisor: Lori Roxborough

• Effects of Exercise Interventions on Stereotypic Behaviors of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Presenters: Sarah Adamson, Laurie Block, Sarah Adamson, Chris Petrus, Maryam Shahnefried. Supervisor: Susan Harris

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Hot Physio Research – New Category on the blog – how it works

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I was thinking to add another interactive – Physiotherapy 2.0 feature to the blog. I created a category called Hot Physio Research from PubMed- where new Evidence Based research from the field of physiotherapy would be automatically fed from PubMed.

So, I searched PubMed for the high level of evidence research that deals with physiotherapy (in English only) – “Physical Therapy Modalities”[MAJR] AND (Meta-Analysis[ptyp] OR Practice Guideline[ptyp] OR Randomized Controlled Trial[ptyp] OR Review[ptyp]) AND English[lang]“ – then saved the search as an RSS feed, parsed from RSS to HTML and displayed it live here.

In a nutshell, what it means that at the moment any new research that answers my initial query in PubMed – high level of physio evidence based research – appears in PubMed, it is automatically appears on our blog – no further action required.

The actual research feed is to be posted as a separate post in a minute and will always be available from the Hot Physio Research from PubMed category on our blog.

I am also making this feed available on the Peggy Sutherland site here.

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Hot Physio Research – New Category on the blog

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This is a live feed from PubMed into our blog that automatically retrieves any new research that answers the following query – “Physical Therapy Modalities”[MAJR] AND (Meta-Analysis[ptyp] OR Practice Guideline[ptyp] OR Randomized Controlled Trial[ptyp] OR Review[ptyp]) AND English[lang] AND (Meta-Analysis[ptyp] OR Practice Guideline[ptyp] OR Randomized Controlled Trial[ptyp] OR Review[ptyp]) AND English[lang]“ – high level of evidence physiotherapy research in English language. Only the last few articles are to be presented…

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Google Trends use in Physiotherapy 2.0

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Have you already heard about Google Trends?

Alive from mid-May 2006, Google Trends is a service that allows you to tap into Google’s database of searches, to determine what’s popular. For example, do a trends query on cars, and you can see the volume of queries over time, by city, regions, languages and so on.

In other words, it shows you search volume trends over time for a keyword or for multiple keywords.

Why you want to know about this service? Because this is a “database of intentions“, according to John Battelle, the founder of Wired magazine. This is a massive database of desires, needs, wants, and likes. Google Trends allows you to check the relative popularity of any search term, to look at how it has changed over the last couple years and to see the cities where the term is most popular.

How useful might it be you could ask? Well, tremendously useful! Let’s see, in this example I asked Google Trends to compare the following phrases searched on Google – physical therapy, physiotherapy, chiropractic, acupuncture, massage therapy. I wanted to see what people are searching for when they are in need for some kind of therapy.

We can see that physical therapy (the US term) and chiropractic are very competing terms during the recent few years, but when you add physiotherapy (the Canadian term) to physical therapy it is still the most searched concept. Please also note that the search volume for physical therapy / physiotherapy has not decreased during the recent few years – isn’t it a handy tool for physiotherapy lobbying?

Of course, Google Trends is not a comprehensive tool. It shows only graphs, not actual numbers, and its data is always about a month out of date, however – it is free.

Play around with this tool and see how it works for your needs, but beware – it might be addictive 🙂

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