PABC Physio Info-blog.

Sunny Hill Health Centre, BC Children's Hospital rehab therapists kindly share this content with the broader audience.

All sessions were recorded in 2007 and are of potential interest to pediatric PTs, OTs and other rehabilitation professionals.

As usual, you can use the green gadget below to listen to the audiocasts right away, or follow the links below to view the actual presentations and listen/download the audio part of the presentations.

New audiocasts:

As always, you can access all our podcasts this way:

1. Go to https://circle.ubc.ca
2. Click on "Library" link under "Communities in UBC cIRcle"
3. Click on "The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre" link
4. You will see a small search box. Click on "Titles" button to list all files by titles or "Authors" file to list all files by their authors
5. When opening a particular record, just click on the relevant links to listen to an audiocast and view the presentations in PDF format.

Thanks a lot to David Jordan from the Sunny Hill Health Centre for working with us to get this content online!!

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Posted by Eugene Barsky at 8:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Published just a few hours ago, here is a new article by Dean Giustini and yours truly, this time about using wikis in health sciences:

Barsky E, Giustini D. Introducing Web 2.0: wikis for health librarians. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association. 2007 28(4): 147-150

Being a proponent of open-access publishing, I have to say that this journal is open access and you can view our article for free!

It was a great privilege and fun working with Dean - a super experienced health librarian who is also a mentor and a good friend. I have to admit that thanks to him - this is one of our best articles in the series so far!

It continues the series of articles I co-write with other medical librarians about using social software in health sciences:

1. Barsky E., & Cho A. Introducing Web 2.0: social search for health librarians. 2007. JCHLA , 28 (2), 59-61

2. Barsky E., & Purdon M. “Introducing Web 2.0: Social networking and social bookmarking”. 2006 JCHLA , 27 (3), 65-67

3. Barsky E. “Introducing Web 2.0: Webloging and podcasting for health librarians”. 2006. JCHLA , 27 (2), 33-34

4. Barsky E. “Introducing Web 2.0: RSS trends for health librarians”. 2006. JCHLA, 27 (1), 7-8.

5. Giustini D, & Barsky E. “A look at Google Scholar, PubMed and Scirus: comparisons and recommendations”. 2005. JCHLA, 26 (3), 85-89.

Have fun reading!!

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Posted by Eugene Barsky at 12:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Here is a short article from Dec. 1, 2007 issue of an excellent (and free access) American Family Physician journal.

The article - "The Physical Therapy Prescription" claims that "family physicians should have some understanding of the various treatments and modalities used by physical therapists."

An excellent overview for the docs!

Read the full text here .

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Posted by Eugene Barsky at 12:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This is our combined 5 hours überworkshop that covers the following information tools and services:

* Mastering Google for Physiotherapists (1 hour workshop)
* Mastering PubMed for Physiotherapists (1 hour workshop)
* Staying up-to-date with your practice - current awareness for health professionals (1/2 hour workshop)
* Lunch break - lunch is not provided - 1 hour
* PABC Library resources: CINAHL, Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR), PsychINFO, PsychARTICLES, and more (1 1/2 hours workshop)

If you have already attended our Google or PubMed workshops just skip them and come to the ones you need.

All workshops run on Saturdays on UBC campus in Point Grey - since this is the only place I can book a big enough computer lab to accommodate as many physios as I can from the Lower Mainland.

Here are some dates for February - May 2008:

1. CANCELED - Library workshop for physiotherapists - Sat 12 Apr 2008
10:30 AM - 3:30 PM, Koerner Library : Room 217 , View more info and register here.

2. CANCELED - Library workshop for physiotherapists - Sun 04 May 2008
10:30 AM - 3:30 PM, Koerner Library : Room 217 , View more info and register here.

The parking on campus is cheap on weekends. The closest parkade to the Koerner Library is Rose Garden Parkade - it is only one block away from the library. Here is the map.

I am looking forward to see as many of you as we can during those seminars!

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Posted by Eugene Barsky at 8:04 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The latest issue of Physiotherapy is online now via the CINAHL database. As usual, you can view the latest table of contents of this (and other physio journals) by clicking the "Top Physiotherapy Journals - Current Tables of Contents" link on the right side of the page, browse the journal names and click on the one you need.

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Posted by Eugene Barsky at 8:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Here is an interesting study from the recent Journal of Athletic Training 2007 Oct-Dec;42(4):530-5 - "Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound and pulsed electromagnetic field in the treatment of tibial fractures: a systematic review".

This systematic review aimed to: "compare the effects of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) or pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF) on fracture healing through a systematic review of original, English-language clinical research reports."

Personally, I don't like that fact that they didn't do their searches on CINAHL - the second most important physiotherapy database that indexes many unique journals of the field - like Physiotherapy or Physiotherapy Canada. They also didn't search EMBASE, which in essence, makes their systematic review not as systematic as they hoped!! It is not enough to search MEDLINE to do a systematic review, folks!

Anyway, their conclusions were: "The studies we included in our review were of generally high methodologic quality. The evidence suggests that LIPUS may speed healing of acute tibial fractures. Comparison studies of these modalities are needed to guide treatment of fractures sustained by athletic individuals."

Take a look on the full text here.

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Posted by Eugene Barsky at 1:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Here is a short article from a recent New York Times talking about Nintendo Wii console. They cite this recent study - "Comparison of energy expenditure in adolescents when playing new generation and sedentary computer games: cross sectional study" from BMJ.

The NYT story says that: "At rest, the children expended an average of about 72 calories per hour. Playing the Xbox game increased the average to 107. Wii tennis consumed 179 calories per hour, and Wii boxing 174 — both significant increases over the Xbox game. But a game of doubles tennis in the real world used 318 calories per hour, and punching a boxing bag 382."

My conclusions - get your kids out to exercise, do it together and enjoy this quality time with your family!!

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Posted by Eugene Barsky at 9:11 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

This recent article from December 22, 2007 issue of BMJ discusses some medical myths that are popular in health and try to rediscover the medical truth :)

Read the full text article fro BMJ here

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Posted by Eugene Barsky at 2:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The latest issue of Nociception? - the Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Sciences Group newsletter is available on their website - Vol. 3, no. 6 (PDF, 350KB)

Have fun reading!

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Posted by Eugene Barsky at 8:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)