AHU Resource Guides: Physical Therapy (Doctoral): Journal Searching / Finding Articles

Databases to find articles

Here are some key databases to assist with finding articles.

Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window Provides full-text access to more than 4,000 journals covering most areas of study.
CINAHL Complete (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window CINAHL Complete is an authoritative resource for nursing and allied health articles. It searches an indexed collection of nearly 3 million articles from more than 3000 journals covering nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, rehabilitation, radiography, sonography, and more. CINAHL Complete also includes the full text of articles from nearly 600 of the journals in the index.
Nursing & Allied Health Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Healthcare information from full-text nursing and health journals and dissertations.
Ovid AHU Journals (Ovid) This link opens in a new window Search full-text medical and nursing journals available from Ovid.
PEDro: Physiotherapy Evidence Database This link opens in a new window The Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro)is a free database of over 26,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
PubMed (National Library of Medicine) This link opens in a new window Search the National Librarian of Medicine database of biomedical and health sciences journals through the publicly available NLM search interface.
ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences College Edition (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window Access an index of millions of journal articles covering a broad range of topics in science, technology, and medicine.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window A full-text database of literature pertaining to sports, rehabilitation, and physical fitness and education topics.

Levels of Evidence

Physical Therapy Journal Titles

Key Physical Therapy Journals

American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation (peer-reviewed)

Cardiopulmonary physical therapy journal

Clinical rehabilitation (peer-reviewed)

Journal of geriatric physical therapy (2001) (peer-reviewed)

Journal of physical therapy education (peer-reviewed)

Journal of physical therapy science [Japan, indicates reviewed by peers]

Journal of sport rehabilitation (peer-reviewed)

Journal of women's health physical therapy

Pediatric physical therapy

Physical therapy

Physical therapy in sport

PT in motion

Spine journal

Advanced Journal Searching

Advanced Database Searching CINAHL
Purdue University
CINAHL Advanced Search Tutorial
EBSCO
PubMed: Using the Advanced Search Builder
NLM