A-Z Databases

Collection Highlights:
Special Tests – a 95-part series presenting special tests used in physical therapy, including varus and valgus stress tests for the knee, finger, wrist, and elbow; Trendelenberg’s test; the 90–90 straight leg test; the patellar grind test; McMurray test; anterior/posterior rib compression test; Milgrim’s test; and much more.
Taping and Wrapping Procedures – a 41-part series on wrapping and taping for sports medicine, covering different types of tape and elastic wraps, the RICE method, and steps for wrapping and taping a wide range of sprains, bruises, and other injuries.
Joint Mobilizations – a 14-part series providing details on joint mobilization techniques, including posterior glides, subtalar glides, tibial glides, humeral glides, ulnar glides, and radiocarpal glides.
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation – a seven-part series demonstrating the D1 flexion, D1 extension, D2 flexion, and D2 extension stretching techniques.
History of Physical Therapy – discusses the ways in which physical education, advances in medicine, the polio epidemic, and the World Wars influenced the growth of physical therapy. It also discusses applications of physical therapy.
Sports Massage – includes two hours of sports massage detailing 13 sessions that will give students the tools to work with runners, cyclists, swimmers, tennis players, and other athletes.
Therapeutic Strategies for Degenerative Joint Disease: Overcoming Pain and Improving Function: A Lecture – offers case studies and mock patient presentations and reviews the assessment process, detailing the key steps of the pathology, evaluation techniques, and concepts, specifically including skills to evaluate and treat the degenerative joint.
New Paradigms in Sports Concussion – presents the latest research and developments in the areas of concussion measurements and mechanisms of injury, physiology of recovery, implications of repeated injury, and the evolving legal environment concerning this injury.

Subjects Include:
Aerospace
Agricultural engineering
Chemical engineering
Computer science
Genetics
Hydroponics
Mechanical engineering
Pharmacology
Robotics
Software development

*More than 360 full-text periodicals
*Nearly 220 full-text books
*Cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 790 academic journals, magazines and trade publications and more than 220 books
*A collection of over 63,000 images

Content Includes:
More than 156,000 quality images
Entries from 3000 B.C. to the present

Subjects Include:
Painting
Sculpture
Drawings and cartoons
Prints
Photographs

Content Includes 1,683 active full-text journals and magazines. Subjects Include Archaeology, Area studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary and social criticism, Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, and Religion and theology.

Aspiring physical therapists can find short instructional clips that cover a wide range of physical therapy interventions and examinations—from stretching techniques to wrapping a shin splint—as well as seminars from top trainers and in-depth documentaries on the history of physical and occupational therapy, massage, and biomechanics.

Content Includes:
More than 150 full-text peer-reviewed journals
More than 40 full-text books, trade publications and magazines
Indexing for more than 220 sports medicine and rehabilitation journals
More than 340,000 records dating back to 1963

Content Includes:
Nearly 800 clinical reviews
Nearly 100 research instruments
Information from AHFS on over 11,700 drugs and their manufacturers
More than 11,800 exercise images
Key reference handbooks
More than 3,000 relevant patient education topics in both English and Spanish
Breaking news
Relevant clinical updates