Physical Therapy
Research Librarian
Rick Ralston
Contact:
Ruth Lilly Medical Library
975 W. Walnut Street, IB 310F
Indianapolis, IN 46202
975 W. Walnut Street, IB 310F
Indianapolis, IN 46202
(317) 274-1409
How to use this Guide
This guide provides resources and information for Physical Therapy students and faculty. Select one of the links below or navigate using the tabs on the left side of the page.
Best Bets
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If you are short on time, these resources are your best bet for this topic.
- MEDLINE (Ovid) This link opens in a new windowInternational index of articles on biomedicine, including the allied health fields, biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Includes info from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing. 1946-present.
- CINAHL Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowCINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index. Includes selected pamphlets and audiovisual materials.
- PEDro This link opens in a new windowPEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It is a free database of over 25,000 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. These quality ratings are used to quickly guide users to trials that are more likely to be valid and to contain sufficient information to guide clinical practice. PEDro is produced by the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy at The George Institute for Global Health.