Subject Guide: Physical Therapy

Physical Therapy Ebooks: Links and descriptions for health science books from AMA (Manual of Style)*, AccessMedicine*, Books@Ovid*, ClinicalKey*, and Ebook Central*.

Note: Links can break without advance notice. If one doesn’t work, use the library catalog to find a fresh link

Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy: Classic Regional Anatomy Approach, 8th ed*, AMA Manual of Style*, Evidence-Based Physical Therapy, 2nd ed.* by Fetters & Tilson, and Fundamentals of Musculoskeletal Imaging* by McKinnis

AccessMedicine*

Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation*, Systemic Musculoskeletal Examinations*, Clinical Neuroanatomy*, and many others. AccessMedicine is a product featuring titles by the publisher McGraw-Hill Education.

Books@Ovid*

Rehabilitation of the Spine: A Practitioner’s Manual, ACSM’s Sports Medicine: A Comprehensive Review, and others. More than 200 premium books published in medicine, nursing, and health sciences that have been designated as Doody’s Core Titles™ by healthcare professionals and medical librarians. Books[at]Ovid is a product of Wolters-Kluwer featuring titles by various publishers.

ClinicalKey*

Orthopedic Physical Assessment*, Shoulder and Elbow Injuries in Athletes*, Orthotics and Prosthetics in Rehabilitation*, and many others. CK is a product featuring titles by the publisher Elsevier.

Ebook Central*

Evidence-Based Physical Therapy*, Physical Therapist’s Clinical Companion*, Clinical Kinesiology and Anatomy*, and many others. EBC is a product of ProQuest featuring titles by various publishers.

Anatomy Subject Guide: Links to Complete Anatomy and other tools & resources

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Physical Therapy Databases: Links and descriptions for top journal databases like PubMed and a clinical decision support tool, ClinicalKey*.

Databases are the workhorses of journal article searching. Since research topics can be in found in many different disciplines and in a huge number of journals, using the right database to search across the appropriate variety of journals is crucial.

Read the descriptions and experiment with the ones on this page to learn which are best for your given search effort. What’s right for one search effort might not be for another.

If you already have in mind a database that will be best for your search effort and don’t see it on this page, check All Databases.

PubMed  Go-to resource for many health science professionals. Paid for by tax dollars rather than tuition, it’s one that will be accessible after completion of the T/DPT program. A large and very comprehensive database that is an excellent place to conduct health science literature research. It searches the MEDLINE database and other journals in health science-related fields. Use this link rather than the link through a Google search to easily see many articles AU subscribes to. Learn the steps in Can’t Find Full-Text? to help find anything else among AU’s subscriptions that PubMed doesn’t provide free access to.

Biomedical Reference Collection  Compare to PubMed. Contains over 4,000 full-text journals covering a variety of disciplines ranging from biomedicine and health sciences to the health care system and pre-clinical sciences.

AccessPhysiotherapy Key textbooks in physical therapy, rehabilitation, & sports medicine; NPTE Exam and Board review materials; interactive Anatomy & Physiology Revealed modules; and more.

ScienceDirect*  Scholarly articles from scientific, technical, and medical journals. A product of the major academic publisher Elsevier.

Journals@Ovid*  Scholarly articles from scientific, technical, and medical journals. Guide to searching Ovid from University College London.

Academic Search Ultimate*  A large, academically multidisciplinary article database that is a very good place to start a scholarly literature search.

WorldCat  A huge database of books and other materials found in libraries across the U.S. and worldwide that you can borrow using Interlibrary Loan.

Psychology Webpage  A list of Landman Library’s mental and behavioral health databases.

No journal database provides access to every article you can find in them. But we may have a subscription to your journal through a different database. Learn the steps to find out which that might be and how to get articles to journals we don’t even subscribe to.

Physical Therapy Journals: A list of select top journals in physical therapy like Physical Therapy*.

Since research topics can be in found in many different disciplines and in a huge number of journals, it’s usually best to use a database like one on the PT Databases page to search for articles. Still, it can be useful to know which are some of the most important journals in a field. Look for other journals in Find a Journal*.

Note: Links can break without advance notice. If one doesn’t work, use Find a Journal* to find a fresh link.

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation*  “A scientific journal including articles written by professionals in the related fields of rehabilitation medicine” (From publisher).

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery*  “JBJS has been the most valued source of information for orthopaedic surgeons and researchers for over 125 years and is the gold standard in peer-reviewed scientific information in the field.” (From publisher).

Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy (JOSPT)*  “JOSPT publishes scientifically rigorous, clinically relevant content for physical therapists and others in the health care community to advance musculoskeletal and sports-related practice” (From publisher).

Physical Therapy*  “Articles, review articles, book reviews, product reviews and commentary focusing on the evolution and expansion of scientific and professional knowledge related to physical therapy” (From publisher).