About

Physiospot is a resource where physiotherapists (and other health care professionals) can easily keep up to date with current affairs related to the physiotherapy profession.  It presents featured articles, new research, recent news, courses and jobs in one easily accessible place.  Not only does this resource provide a wealth of current and archived information for health care professionals, it also provides a great place for self directed continuing education and professional development.

READ Read the most current and clinically relevant articles here on Physiospot. Browse through the recent posts from all categories or visit your clinical area of interest.	SEARCH Looking for something in particular? You can use the custom search box to input your own specific search term or you can browse through the categories for the topic that you are looking for.
REVIEW If you have reviewed an article for it’s validity, reliability and applicability to clinical practice, you might like to share that with us for all to view. You can become one of our regular or a guest author.	DISCUSS The comments function allows for each article to be individually discussed. We encourage discussion in this area especially talk of outcomes of appraisals and applications to practice.

The History of Physiospot

Physiospot was founded by Rachael Lowe in 2006.  As a busy practitioner Rachael found it difficult to make the time to trawl through journals looking for appropriate articles to keep her practice up to date and evidenced based. The task of collating these articles into one place is a resource that she would have liked to be available to her at the time, as it wasn’t she went about setting up this service herself.  She presented summaries of articles from recently published journals that were specifically selected for their clinical relevance.  This offered the opportunity for clinicians to monitor new and clinically relevant research as it was published in different clinical areas.  Her aim was to make clinically relevant research easily available to clinicians and also to provide a professional development activity that enabled clinicians to more easily incorporate the evidence into practice.  With the valuable help from additional authors Physiospot Musculoskeletal, the inaugural blog, was soon followed by others in different clinical areas.  In 2009 advanced technology enabled all the different blogs to be amalgamated into one place whilst still retaining distinction between the clinical areas, and also to incorporate featured articles, recent news, and courses and jobs.

Physiospot as a continuing education and professional development resource

Physiospot offers clinicians the opportunity to go to one place for an overview of all the recent research and news from the physiotherapy community and related health professions.  This enables practitioners to easily keep up to date with current affairs whilst links to further information give them the opportunity to read more into specific articles that take their interest.  This makes Physiospot a great starting place for self directed continuing education and professional development.