Link Title and URL | Description |
AbilityNet - Championing IT for People with a disability www.abilitynet.org.uk | AbilityNet is a national charity with centre's through out the UK. We help people with a disability gain access to IT. |
Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists www.aacp.uk.com/ | 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. |
Ainsdale Physiotherapy Clinic. www.ainsdalephysiotherapy.co.uk | Based in Ainsdale, Southport. Leading Physiotherapy Clinic. |
Arthritis Research Campaign www.arc.org.uk | 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 www.backcare.org.uk | 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 |
Brooklands Physiotherapy Clinic. www.brooklandsphysiotherapy.co.uk | Stockports Premier Physiotherapy Clinic. |
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy www.csp.org.uk | 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. |
Cochrane Electronic Library http://www.thecochranelibrary.com | 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. |
Department of Health www.dh.gov.uk/Home/fs/en | Providing health and social care policy, guidance and publications |
Diabetes UK www.diabetes.org.uk | Diabetes UK is the largest organisation in the UK working for people with diabetes, funding research, campaigning and helping people live with the condition. |
GB Physiotherapy and Sports Injuries Clinic. www.easepain.co.uk | Located in Broadbottom, Via Hyde. Leading Physiotherapy Clinic. |
Health on the Net www.hon.ch | 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. |
Health Professions Council www.hpc-uk.org | The new regulatory body for 12 health professions in the UK, including physiotherapists. Check here to see if your physio is registered! |
Healthfinder www.healthfinder.gov | Health information from the Office of Diesease Prevention and health Promotion |
International Private Practitioners Association www.ippaworld.org | 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. |
National Back Pain Association www.backpain.org | 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 |
Patient education - hip, knee and shoulder surgery www.sportsknee.com/patient.htm | Educational animations of hip, knee and shoulder surgery |
Physiotherapy Pain Association www.ppaonline.co.uk/ | 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. |
Private Physiotherapy Educational Foundation www.physiofirst.org.uk/ppef | 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 www.reutershealth.com | 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 Knee Foundation www.kneefoundation.com/acatalog | 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 www.naric.org.uk | 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 www.stroke.org.uk | 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. |
Work Place Health Connect www.workplacehealthconnect.co.uk/ | Free and impartial advice on health at work in partnership with the HSE |
World Confederation for Physical Therapy www.wcpt.org | 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. |
World Health Organisation www.who.int | 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. |