Category: Websites worth a click

womenshealthmatters.ca is dedicated to providing informative and reliable information specific to the health of Canadian women.

The site, which is updated several times a week, is backed by women’s health experts at Women’s College Hospital in Ontario.

In particular, take a look on the A-Z index of topics that is pretty extensive. For example, take a look for a topic of Pelvic health and disease.

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Rachael Lowe, a physio from UK is coordinating a number of physical therapy blogs that could be of interest to you:

* Physiospot Musculoskeletal

* Physiospot Sports

* Physiospot Womens Health

Says Rachael: “The aim of Physiospot is to provide a set of research article blogs that allow physiotherapists to easily stay up to date with current research in their area of interest.”

Take a look yourself 🙂

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Drawn mainly from the collections of the our colleagues at the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Dream Anatomy shows off the anatomical imagination in some of its most astonishing incarnations, from 1500 to the present.

From their blurb: “The interior of our bodies is hidden to us. What happens beneath the skin is mysterious, fearful, amazing. In antiquity, the body’s internal structure was the subject of speculation, fantasy, and some study, but there were few efforts to represent it in pictures. The invention of the printing press in the 15th century-and the cascade of print technologies that followed-helped to inspire a new spectacular science of anatomy, and new spectacular visions of the body. Anatomical imagery proliferated, detailed and informative but also whimsical, surreal, beautiful, and grotesque — a dream anatomy that reveals as much about the outer world as it does the inner self.”

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/

Thanks to David Rothman for the reminder :), very cool!

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The Canadian Health Network (CHN) is a national, bilingual health promotion program.

The mission of the Canadian Health Network is to promote healthy choices for Canadians. The CHN offers trustworthy information on health promotion and disease and injury prevention through a vast network of expert organizations. This network of health information providers includes the Public Health Agency of Canada , Health Canada and national and provincial/territorial non-profit organizations, as well as universities, hospitals, libraries and community organizations.

The CHN website includes links to more than 20,000 English and French Canadian web-based resources and provides in-depth information on 25 key health topics and population groups. The CHN also offers many search choices to explore its large collection of Canadian and international health resources.

This is an excellent web resource for consumer health information, however, I have to admit that personally I prefer the outstanding MEDLINEPlus by the U.S. National Library of Medicine – well those folks have MUCH more money invested in health research than we even dream here in Canada 🙁

Canada’s Physical Activity Web Site – http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/pau-uap/paguide/

This site is a part of the larger Public Health Agency of Canada site, and includes a number of one-page, easy-to-read pamphlets about physical activities that can help your patients to have more energy, move more easily, and get stronger. The information from the handbook is freely posted on the site, moreover you can order FREE hard copies of the Guide itself, or the Handbook with the Guide pull-out here.