Health & Medicine

Physiotherapy

General Guides

Specific Resources

Biomechanics and ergonomics

Disabilities and rehabilitation

Ankle, joint and foot

Neurological and spinal

Geriatric physical therapy

Pediatric physical therapy

Associations, Professional Organizations & Universities

Electronic Journals/Books/Reports

Journals

Books and other publications

Publishers

Online Bookstores

Conferences

Image Databases

Newsgroups & Listservs

General Guides

• About.com : Physical Therapy
• Hardin Meta Directory : Physical Therapy/Physiotherapy
• MEDNETS : Physical Therapy Databases
• OMNI : Physical Therapy, Physical Therapy (Specialty), and Physical Therapy Techniques
• Open Directory : Health : Physical Therapy (by Open Directory Project, DMOZ)
• Open Directory : Health : Medical Specialties: Rehabilitation Medicine (by Open Directory Project, DMOZ)
• PEDro - the physiotherapy evidence database developed and maintained by the Centre of Evidence-Based Physiotherapy, the School of Physiotherapy, the University of Sydney
• PTGlobal.net
• PhysicalTherapist.com
• Physical Therapy Web Space
• Physical Therapy World
• PT Central
• Rehabilitation and Related Therapies Field (Universiteit Maastricht)

Specific Resources

Biomechanics and ergonomics

• Clinical Gait Analysis
• ErgoWeb
• Stretching and Flexibilty

Disabilities and rehabilitation

• CIRRIE (Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange) Database of Rehabilitation Research
• Apple's Disability Solutions
• RehabWorld
• Resources for Rehabilitation
• VA Research & Development (Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S.)

Ankle, joint and foot

• Dr. Pribut's Running Injuries Page
• Dr Nelson Clinic.com : Foot and Ankle Information
• Johns Hopkins Arthritis Case Rounds - case studies taken from those seen at the Johns Hopkins Rheumatology Clinics or as inpatient consultations
• Racquet Research - data on racquet performance and prevention of tennis elbow
• Prosthetics Research Study

Neurological and spinal

• About.com : Back and Neck Injury/Chronic Pain
• Pain Net
• Spinal Cord Injury Resource Center
• Spinal Cord Research Centre
• SpineCare Medical Group

Geriatric physical therapy

• Section on Geriatrics (SoG) of the American Physical Therapy Association

Pediatric physical therapy

• Down Syndrome Online

Associations, Professional Organizations & Universities

• Alberta Physiotherapy Association
• American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
• American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
• American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine
• American Physical Therapy Association
• Arthritis Foundation (U.S.)
• Association of Reflexologists (U.K.)
• Australian Physiotherapy Association
• Canadian Physiotherapy Association
• Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (U.K.)
• Federation Internationale de Medecine Sportive
• Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy (U.S.)
• Hong Kong Association of Sports Medicine & Sports Science
• Hong Kong Orthopaedic Association
• Hong Kong Physiotherapy Association
• Hong Kong Society of Neurosciences
• Hong Kong Society of Rheumatology
• International Society of Biomechanics
• Marquette University Department of Physical Therapy (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.)
• Medical College of Georgia Department of Physical Therapy
• National Back Pain Association (U.K.)
• Physical Therapy Web Space : Organizations
• Physiotherapy Pain Association (U.K.)
• Simon Fraser University School of Kinesiology (British Columbia, Canada)
• Society for Neuroscience (U.S.)
• Southern California Orthopedic Institute
• University of New Brunswick Faculty of Kinesiology (Canada)

Electronic Journals/Books/Reports

Journals (Please also refer to our Library's Journal Collection )

• Arthritis Today Magazine
• BioMechanics : the magazine of body movement and medicine
• CyberSport Quarterly
• Down Syndrome Quarterly
• Ergonomics Australia On-Line (free registration required; please click here for issues published before 2000)
• Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
• Journal of Physical Therapy Science
• Journal of the Japanese Physical Therapy Association
• Medicine and Science in Tennis
• New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy
• Orthopedics Today (free registration required)
• Physician and SportsMedicine Journal
• Sociology of Sport Online
• SportScience

Books and other publications

• Anatomy Teaching Modules (University of Washington, U.S.)
• Annual Rehabilitation Research & Development Progress Reports (Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S.)
• Back & Neck Care Guide (McKinley Health Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• e-Hand - the electronic textbook of hand surgery
• Hosford Muscle Tables: Skeletal Muscles of the Human Body (from PTCentral)
• Physical Fitness: A Guide for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (please click the section of your choice for the full text)
• Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
• Worldortho electronic textbook

Publishers

Please also refer to the General Medicine page in our Internet Resources .

• Physical Therapy, and Physical Medicine and Rehab Titles from Elsevier, Saunders, Mosby, Churchill Livingstone, Butterworth-Heinemann, and Hanley & Belfus
• Harcourt Publisher
• Jones and Bartlett Publishers
• Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Physical Therapy Store

Online Bookstores

• ByteBack Physical Therapy Orthopedic Library - an online orthopedic health care bookstore

Conferences

• Rehabilitation Meetings (MediConf) (free registration required)

Image Databases

Please also refer to the Radiography page in our Internet Resources.

• Human Anatomy Online
• HyperMuscle : Muscles in Action - movies of the human body in action (University of Michigan Learning Resource Center)
• Lumen's Master Muscle List : Description of all muscles with illustrations
• Urbana Atlas of Pathology (University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign)
• Whole Brain Atlas (Harvard School of Medicine)
• WinkingSkull.com - human anatomy study aid

Newsgroups & Listservs

• National Scoliosis Foundation's Community Center (U.S.)
• PHYSIO MailBase
• Physical Therapy Discussion Forum
• PTHER Physical Therapy Email List

Faculty Librarian

Jane Tsang
Tel: (852) 2766-6859
Email: lbjane@polyu.edu.hk