DATABASE USE IN PHYSICAL THERAPY

1. All Databases in Physical Therapy ( is a best bet)
 CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Scholarly journal articles about nursing and allied health. Includes
nursing interventions, management, education, theory, and history.
Also includes allied health topics such as physical and occupational
therapy. 1981-current.
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 CIRRIE: Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information
and Exchange
Citations (with links to abstracts) to disability and rehabilitation
journals, only for research conducted outside the United
States.1990 - present.
Also Known As
o Database of International Rehabilitation Research (CIRRIE)
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 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Evidence for and against the effectiveness and appropriateness of
treatments (medications, surgery, rehabilitation, education,
etc). current.
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 National Guideline Clearinghouse
Comprehensive database of full-text evidence-based clinical
practice guidelines and related documents. current.
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 PEDro: The Physiotherapy Evidence Database

2. Scholarly evidence-based journal articles about physical
therapy/physiotherapy. Includes only systematic reviews or other
articles that report research results. Not comprehensive.1929-
current.
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 PubMed
Scholarly journal articles about health and medicine, nursing,
audiology, and biology. PubMed includes the MEDLINE database,
but has newer content and additional life science journals. PubMed
is late 1940s-current. 1940s-current.
Also Known As
o Medline via PubMed
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 REHABDATA (NARIC)
Citations and abstracts to physical, mental, and psychiatric
disabilities and rehabilitation literature. 1956-present.
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 Scopus
Scholarly journal articles and conference papers on any topic in
science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts &
humanities. Includes cited references and h-index
information. 1996-present for cited reference searching; partial
coverage, without references, to 1823.
Former Web of Science/Web of Knowledge Users: Scopus has
several tutorials available to help you learn how to use its many
functions. Please check the details section for a link.

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 SPORTDiscus
Scholarly journal articles about sport, fitness, and physical
education topics including both practical and research literature.
Covers sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics,
psychology, training, coaching, physical education and
fitness. 1975-present.
Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
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 Thieme Electronic Medical Book Library
Electronic textbooks on anatomy, audiology, biochemistry,
genetics, immunology, microbiology, neurology, neuroscience,
nutrition, otolaryngology, pathology, pharmacology, physiology,
radiology. Designed for medical school students.