Physical Therapy

Begin your search for scholarly articles in library databases. These curated collections contain resources to support research across disciplines.

Databases and the Get it @ MWU button will direct you to articles and journals from the library collection or to use interlibrary loan, ILLiad. Create an ILLiad account and articles from other libraries will be delivered to you in a few business days. For information on ILLiad, click the link below:

Search all EBSCOhost databases and search 80 multidisciplinary databases at once. Databases include medical, health science, rehabilitation,  education, psychology and more. It may be helpful to focus your search to physical therapy to retrieve relevant articles.

Copy and paste one of the following search strings into one of the EBSCohost search lines. Add your specific search terms to the other lines. 

Narrow PT String: 

(TI ("physical therap*" OR physiotherap*) OR AB ("physical therap*" OR physiotherap*) OR SU ("physical therap*" OR physiotherap*))

Broad PT String:  

(TI ("physical therap*" OR "physiotherap*" OR rehabilit* OR "exercise therap*") OR AB ("physical therap*" OR "physiotherap*" OR rehabilit* OR "exercise therap*") OR SU ("physical therap*" OR "physiotherap*" OR rehabilit* OR "exercise therap*")) 

1. Use Keywords or short phrases 
   • Avoid using full sentences or questions
   • Identify the main concepts of question or topic
2. Broaden or narrow search using Boolean Operators
   • AND - Narrows a search -- articles retrieved must have ALL terms
   • OR - Broadens a search -- articles retrieved may have ANY terms present
3. Utilize database's filters to refine results

For help with searching in database reach out to the MWU Librarians.

Browse high impact physical therapy journals: