Guides: Physical Therapy: Research Resources

Databases

Select Physical Therapy Databases

PubMed This link opens in a new window Indexes journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.  Contains material not yet indexed in Medline.
Uses Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities.
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Embase This link opens in a new window Provides bibliographical information for scholarly material in biomedical and pharmacological sciences.
MEDLINE (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window Indexes journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.  
Uses Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities.
Included in many other databases, most notably PubMed.
CINAHL with full text This link opens in a new window Provides bibliographic data and some full text for scholarly literature in nursing and allied health professions.
SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window Indexes literature on sports and sports medicine.
Cochrane library This link opens in a new window Provides full-text access to Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and Cochrane Clinical Answers.  
Cochrane Database of Systemtic Reviews (CDSR) contains both systematic reviews articles and protocols for the health sciences.
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) contains bibliographic reports for randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials.
Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs) provides questions, short answers, and outcome data based from Cochrane Reviews for clinical decision making.

* For the differences between PubMed, MEDLINE, and Embase, click HERE (opens in a new window)

Multidisciplinary Databases

Scopus This link opens in a new window Provides citations and abstracts of scholarly works in 240 disciplines from over 7000 publishers.  Includes links to references, citations, and related works and has extensive author profiles.  
Web of science. Core collection This link opens in a new window Provides citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed works in 254 disciplines.  Includes links to references, citations, and related works and has extensive author profiles.   
OneSearch This link opens in a new window OneSearch is a discovery tool that provides a single place to search most of the content available from the Baylor University Libraries, including:  traditional library materials (books, journal titles, media, etc.); the Baylor Digital Collections; BEARdocs, (electronic theses and dissertations, honors theses, technical reports, faculty publications, etc.); research guides;  and -- most importantly, much of the full text content to which the Baylor Libraries subscribe from a wide variety of sources.

List of All Physical Therapy Databases

Physical Therapy Database links

Journals

Selected Physical Therapy Journals

Physical Therapy Journals subscribed by Baylor University Libraries

Physical Therapy Journals in OneSearch

Books

AccessPhysiotherapy This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive online physiotherapy resource which integrates leading physical therapy textbooks, procedure and exercise videos, image galleries, self-assessment tools, and a unique cadaver dissection tool.

Other Resources or Related Information

Professional Online Tools

PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database)
A free database of randomized trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. All trials are independently assessed for quality; these ratings are used to guide users to trials that are more likely to be valid.
APTA YouTube channel
Recordings of events and activities produced by the American Physical Therapy Association
PT Pintcast
A popular podcast designed for physical therapists by practitioners