PsycBITE: Brain Impairment Treatment Database

PsycBITE: Psychological Database for Brain Impairment Treatment Efficacy

The aim of PsycBITE is to enable clinicians to quickly identify, evaluate and implement evidence-based interventions for psychological issues experienced by people with acquired brain impairment. Also, the database enables students and researchers of different disciplines to find articles which might be relevant to their field of study.

Members of the original team are a multidisciplinary group of researchers in Sydney, Australia, each of whom has many years of clinical experience in the management of people with acquired brain impairment.

OTCats: Occupational Therapy Critically Appraised Topics

OTCats A CAT is like a shorter and less rigorous version of a systematic review, summarising the best available research evidence on a topic, and OTCats covers occupational therapy interventions. These occupational therapy CATs have not been formally peer reviewed, other than by the developer of the site, Dr Annie McCluskey, PhD, MA, DipCOT.

OT's are also welcome to submit their own CATS to the site: CAT Template

Topics

Free Wound Care CE

Coloplast is offering CE on the following topics in their Coloplast Academy:


Wound Assessment and Documentation
Learn how to assess chronic wounds, describe wound characteristics and use tips and tools that will increase the accuracy and consistency of your documentation.

Lower Extremity Wounds
Learn about lower extremity venous disease (LEVD) and lower extremity arterial disease (LEAD), and how to assess and treat the resulting wounds, or ulcers.

Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Learn how to identify patients at risk for pressure ulcers and implement prevention strategies as early as possible during their hospital stays.

OT Seeker: Occupational Therapy Systematic Evaluation of Evidence

OT Seeker: Occupational Therapy Systematic Evidence
OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy. Trials have been critically appraised and rated to assist you to evaluate their validity and interpretability. These ratings will help you to judge the quality and usefulness of trials for informing clinical interventions. In one database, OTseeker provides you with fast and easy access to trials from a wide range of sources. Developed by academics at the University of Queensland and University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Online Resources from the PA Occupational Therapy Association

The Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association(POTA) has a list of online resources for OT's including:
Advance for OT Online
Publication for OT practitioners.

American Occupational Therapy Association
AOTA houses an extensive website full of resources for OT's.

Americas Healthcare Source
Lists and provides information on continuing education courses and workshops across the country.

disABILITY Information and Resources
Extensive list of links for people livign with a disability.

National Certification Board of Occupational Therapy
Examine the professional standards for certification of occupational therapy practitioners. Find out about state regulation and exam scoring..

Trace Center
The Trace Research & Development Center is a part of the College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Founded in 1971, Trace has been a pioneer in the field of technology and disability.

Wheelchair Net
A Virtual Community for Wheelchair-Minded People. A vast directory of resources and networking here for therapists and the disabled community. Includes information on wheelchairs and other assistive technology.

Disability Info at MossRehab ResourceNet

MossRehab ResourceNet provides a variety of information related to disability.
Topics Include:

Accessible Travel
Disability Fact Sheets
General Resources
such as Assistive Technology Resource Centers, Caregiving, Daily Living Aids, Exercise, Research, Government Agencies
ADA

Physiotherapy Evidence Database: PEDro

PEDro is a free database of over 15,500 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. Some of the articles and guidelines are available free online.

For each trial, review or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details, the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible. All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality. These quality ratings are used to quickly guide users to trials that are more likely to be valid and to contain sufficient information to guide clinical practice.

PEDro is produced by the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy at The George Institute for International Health.

CE for PT/OT on Traumatic Brain Injury

Traumatic Brain InjuryHope Through Research 2.0 contact hours for $18.00 from Wild Iris

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
Discuss the characteristics of traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Explain the treatment of a person with TBI.
Identify immediate post-injury complications of TBI.
Summarize the disabilities that can result from TBI.
Review methods for prevention of TBI.
Discuss the most promising areas of research for the treatment of TBI

ADVANCE Newsmagazines

Merion Publishing, right in King of Prussia, is the publisher of an empire of newsmagazines for many of the allied health professions. A full listing is available at AdvanceWeb, with subscriptions free for qualified professionals. Selected content is also available free to anyone on the web.

Advance includes news, trends, career advice, articles, education, events and forums.

Here are just a few:

ADVANCE for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine
ADVANCE for Speech Language Pathologists & Audiologists
ADVANCE for Physical Therapists & PT Assistants
ADVANCE for Occupational Therapy Practitioners
ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals
ADVANCE for Health Information Professionals

Advance for OT Online: Patient Handouts

Advance for OT Online has links to patient handouts on topics such as:

Improving Balance Through Exercise
Hot and Cold Therapies
Balance Exercises for Fall Prevention
Balance Exercises with Therapy Ball
Balance Exercises with Therapy Bands

Also check out their Annual Continuing Education Directory:

NEW! CE Directory