Graduating this summer? Increase your employability by volunteering with Physiopedia
Are you graduating form physiotherapy or physical therapy school this summer and looking for ways to make your CV stand out amongst the crowd? Physiopedia offers a formal and rewarded volunteer program where you can earn professional development certificates, Physiopedia Badges and references for your future employer. Joining us on the team at Physiopedia is a great [...]
FREE Online Professional Ethics Course – 16th July-31st August 2013
This course is part of the PHT402 (Professional Ethics in Physiotherapy) module at the University of Western Cape, It is a 10 credit, yearlong module offered as part of the 3rd and 4th year undergraduate programme. This year it is running online in Physiopedia and anyone is welcome to join the course. Over a 6 week [...]
Prescribing Rights in Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy
Recent developments in the extended scope of the physiotherapist and physical therapist are moving towards prescribing rights for our profession. Following a lengthy campaigning by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) in July 2012 in a ground-breaking change to their role Physiotherapists in the UK were given new responsibilities to independently prescribe medicines to their patients. The Australian [...]
Physiotherapy Podcasts
Podcasts are audio files that are published on the internet on a regular basis so that users can subscribe to them. They are digital files that can be downloaded and listened to using portable devices or on your desktop. Free software makes it easy to subscribe to podcasts using RSS feeds for playback on portable [...]
CBA and Physical Therapy Management in Pain – 21/22 June – Huddersfield, UK
PPA and PTE are pleased to present The Cognitive Behavioural Approach to Physical Tehrapy in the Management of Pain 21-22 Juneat University of Huddersfield The course objectives are that the delegate should develop an understanding of: the application of the Biopsychosocial Model to pain. the Cognitive Behavioural Model as it relates to pain. risk factors for [...]
Population approaches to improve diet, physical activity, and smoking habits: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association
Poor lifestyle behaviors are leading causes of preventable diseases globally. We have previously written about Physiotherapists Must Address the Global Burden of Musculoskeletal and Other Non-Communicable Disease and highlighted recent writings in the Lancet with More on Non-Communicable Diseases. EDUCATA have recently made available a free research paper, Population approaches to improve diet, physical activity, and smoking [...]
Collect Professional Development Badges at Physiopedia
Physiopedia’s new Badges project is offering the opportunity to collect badges that evidence your involvement, learning and development with Physiopedia. Never has it been more important for physiotherapy and physical therapy practitioners to be able to demonstrate their continuing education and and professional development. The internet has presented many new opportunities for learning and development outside of [...]
Effect of Therapeutic Exercise on Pain and Disability in the Management of Chronic Nonspecific Neck Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials
Given the prevalence of chronic non-specific neck pain (CNSNP) internationally, attention has increasingly been paid in recent years to evaluate the efficacy of therapeutic exercise (TE) with this condition. The purpose of this study was to conduct a current review of RCTs concerning the effect of TE on pain and disability among people with CNSNP, [...]
Missing in Action: Evidence
There is a systematic flaw in evidence based practice – there is a bias in research towards positive results which is misleading. Physiotherapists should be aware of this systematic flaw in evidence based practice which has been highlighted in a systematic review of studies concerning publication bias. This review found that: publication bias effects every [...]
Accuracy of the Canadian C-spine rule and NEXUS to screen for clinically important cervical spine injury in patients following blunt trauma: a systematic review.
There is uncertainty about the optimal approach to screen for clinically important cervical spine (C-spine) injury following blunt trauma. A recent systematic review has investigated the diagnostic accuracy of the Canadian C-spine rule and the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) criteria to assist emergency physicians to assess the need for cervical spine imaging. The [...]
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