Disciplines & Professions: Physical Therapy

Web Sites

About.com's Physical Therapy Directory
http://physicaltherapy.about.com/

Provides links to sites on a wide range of physical therapy issues. Includes sponsored links.

Open Directory's Physical Therapy Directory
http://dmoz.org/Health/Professions/Physical_Therapist/

Provides links to over 150 sites on physical therapy and offers visitors an annotated list of direct links to over 20 useful URLs.

Physical Therapist Online
http://www.physicaltherapist.com/

Site offers such services as real-time chat rooms, journal articles relating to physical therapy, upcoming events, local clinics, job postings, educational courses, and more.

Yahoo!'s Physical Therapy Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/Medicine/Physical_Therapy/

Offers an index of Web sites organized under 8 subject headings, in addition to 12 direct and annotated links to popular Web addresses.

Databases

EMBASE: Rehabilitation & Physical Medicine (Elsevier, available through SilverPlatter)

This database contains information regarding rehabilitation and physical therapy. The more than 100,000 entries are updated on a rolling ten-year basis. Records include bibliographic citations.

Print Resources

Bottomley, Jennifer, ed. Quick Reference Dictionary for Physical Therapy. Thorofare, NJ: SLACK, 2000.

Designed to provide easy access to terminology and concepts to students and practitioners. Includes a dictionary of terms and more than 35 appendices of relevant information.

Eisenberg, Myron G., ed. Dictionary of Rehabilitation. New York: Springer, 1995.

A general reference source for definitions of terms and concepts. More than 3,500 entries are organized alphabetically.

Pauls, Julie A., and Kathlyn L. Reed. Quick Reference to Physical Therapy. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen, 1996.

Provides descriptions, assessments, treatments, and references for diseases, disorders, and injuries. Organized by type of disorder or injury. An index is included.

Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1957-.

Hundreds of entries including bibliographic information and abstracts of articles. Arranges entries by subject. A cumulative index is provided.