| Link title & URL | Description |
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| AbilityNet is a national charity with centre's through out the UK. We help people with a disability gain access to IT. | |
| Acupuncture is one of the varied skills offered by physiotherapists. The body is a self repairing mechanism and any interference through the use of acupuncture, acupressure or electro-acupunctural means is aimed at encouraging this self healing ability. | |
| Arthritis causes long term health problems for more than one in seven adults and many thousands of children. arc is the only UK charity wholly dedicated to curing it. | |
| BackCare is an independent national charity that helps people manage and prevent back pain by:- * providing evidence-based information via our website, facts sheets, publications and Talkback magazine. * providing a telephone helpline service * promoting best practice in the prevention and management of back pain * funding research into the causes, treatments and management of back pain * Promoting self help via our local branches | |
| The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) is the professional, educational and trade union body for the UK's 47,000 chartered physiotherapists, physiotherapy students and assistants. | |
| The Cochrane Library is considered to be the best single source of reliable evidence about the effects of health care. It is internationally respected as providing the gold standard in "what works and what doesn’t". It is used by researchers and clinicians worldwide, and increasingly by patients and their families. It also provides the evidence base for many people involved in the preparation of health guidelines. | |
| Providing health and social care policy, guidance and publications | |
| Diabetes UK is the largest organisation in the UK working for people with diabetes, funding research, campaigning and helping people live with the condition. | |
| Health On the Net Foundation is the leading organization promoting and guiding the deployment of useful and reliable online medical and health information, and its appropriate and efficient use. Created in 1995, HON is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, accredited to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. | |
| The new regulatory body for 12 health professions in the UK, including physiotherapists. Check here to see if your physio is registered! | |
| Health information from the Office of Diesease Prevention and health Promotion | |
| The International Private Practitioners Association (IPPA) is a non-governmental affiliation of Private Practice Organisations of National Physical Therapy Associations. It is a collaboration of international independent practitioners in physical therapy. | |
McKenzie Institute International - For those who suffer and for those who treat back pain | The worldwide mission of The McKenzie Institute is to further the philosophies and treatments for spinal disorders developed by Robin Anthony McKenzie of Waikanae, New Zealand. |
| MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news. | |
| BackCare is an independent national charity that helps people manage and prevent back pain by:- * providing evidence-based information via our website, facts sheets, publications and Talkback magazine. * providing a telephone helpline service (0845 130 2705) * promoting best practice in the prevention and management of back pain * funding research into the causes, treatments and management of back pain * Promoting self help via our local branches | |
| The NZPPA is a special interest group of the NZ Society of Physiotherapists Inc. Our primary purpose is to provide leadership, political and funding representation, business and management support to physiotherapists in private practice. | |
| Educational animations of hip, knee and shoulder surgery | |
| The Physiotherapy Pain Association (PPA) was formed to bring together and provide information for Physiotherapists with the common interest of managing patients with both acute and long term pain. | |
| It has the following objective: * The advancement of education in the field of physiotherapy for the benefit of the public, in particular by: + (i) the provision of education and training in physiotherapy to the public at large and in particular: # (a) to physiotherapy patients to enable such patients to relieve or assist in relieving their own suffering # (b) to persons (professionally qualified or not) providing paid or voluntary care to any person in need of physiotherapy + (ii) the promotion of research and the dissemination to the public at large of the results of research in the field of physiotherapy | |
| Reuters Health (RH) is the world's leading provider of medical and healthcare news. Reuters Health news services are internationally recognized as unbiased, authoritative, timely and dependable, with the reputation for quality that one expects from a Reuters company. | |
| The Society of Orthopaedic Medicine was formed in 1979 to develop the work of Dr James Cyriax and to promote the theory and practice of orthopaedic medicine. Membership consists of approximately 1700 doctors and physiotherapists. | |
| The Knee Foundation has helped teach over 1,300 Doctors, Physiotherapists and Nurses around the World, supported over 40 young doctors to train via its Knee Fellowship programme and encouraged many research projects. It is also building a Patient Fund to award Patient Support Grants, Its purpose will be to assist knee patients in particular financial need to access specialist skills where the NHS is unable to help them or there is a definite requirement for urgency and the NHS is insufficiently able to respond. | |
The National Academic Recognition Information Centre for the United Kingdom | The UK NARIC is the National Agency for the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). We are the only official information provider on the comparability of international qualifications from over 180 countries worldwide. |
| The Stroke Association's main focus is to prevent strokes and to give support to people who have had a stroke and their families through our information and community services. | |
| The World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) is a non-profit organisation founded in 1951, supported by subscriptions from its 82 Member Organisations. The confederation represents over 225,000 physical therapists worldwide. | |
| The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. It was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. |