Collins Memorial Library: Physical Therapy: Articles

Key Database: PubMed

PubMed is your go-to source for searching the medical literature. Bookmark this link to access PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?otool=wacmllib

PubMed is available to anyone, but not all articles found through undefined PubMed are openly accessible. By using this link, you will be shown a small blue and white 'Check for full text' button on article results pages which will connect you back to the University of Puget Sound to check for full-text access through Collins Library! Keep an eye out for that 'check for full text' button.

Key Database: CINAHL

CINAHL, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health, covers a wide range of topics including nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Includes the same interface and features as SportDiscus. Click here to search.

Subject Specific Databases

ERIC (Education Resource Information Center)
The go-to education database, ERIC covers articles in 750 journals on all aspects of education and related topics, and to ERIC documents, which include curriculum guides, reports, and conference papers.
PsycINFO
Coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to over 1400 journals (and to dissertations) in more than 30 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. Popular literature is excluded.
PAIS Index
Indexes resources on public affairs and policy, with an international scope.
F.A. Davis PT Collection
Includes physical therapy texts, including Dutton’s Orthopaedic Examination, Evaluation, and Intervention and O’Sullivan, Physical Rehabilitation, fully searchable and continuously updated. As well as procedure and exercise videos on exercise and rehabilitation techniques and interventions, self-assessment tools consisting of interactive self-assessment questions to prepare for the NPTE exam, a unique cadaver dissection tool, cases designed to help physical therapy students learn in the context of real patients, and concise outlines of common conditions and disorders.
AccessPhysiotherapy
Provides students with instant access to videos, self-assessment, and leading physical therapy textbooks that will establish an important foundation for learning, and allows physical therapists to brush up on their knowledge or access quick answers as the need arises.

Additional Databases

Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane Reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to Cochrane Reviews, The Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information: other systematic reviews, abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials - all the current evidence in one single environment.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. With full bibliographic coverage, monographs dating back to 1949, and journal coverage to 1975. SPORTDiscus is provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre
PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database)
PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database, a free database of over 19,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. For each trial, review or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details, the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible. All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides nearly 590 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 627 journals. Also includes Stedman's Medical Dictionary - providing users with access to terminology of genetics, oncology, pediatrics, pulmonology, emergency medicine, bacteriology, and laboratory medicine.

Google Scholar Cited Reference Search

Another useful feature of Google Scholar is its ability to allow for easily finding articles which have cited an article that you have found.

Step 1: When looking at search results, check for the 'Cited by X' link underneath each result. That will tell you how many subsequent articles (that Google Scholar is aware of...it's not 100% comprehensive! This is a ballpark figure) have cited this particular article.

Step 2: Click that link, and you will be taken to a new set of results, all of which have cited the original article, which will still be listed at the top of the page.