Internet resources
One of the best presentations I attended at the recent 2010 ACRM-ASNR Joint Education Conference in Montreal was provided by Dr Jeffrey Kreutzer and his team from Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr Kreutzer and colleagues have been working for many years now on support and intervention strategies for families of people with acquired brain injury. Read more »
- 03 Nov 2010
The New Zealand Autism Spectrulm Disorder (ASD) Guidelines were published by the Ministry of Health in April 2008. This website was created to disseminate information in the guidelines on the recognition and referral of ASD. Read more »
The Cochrane Collaboration is a free (in NZ) online resource that brings you rigorous, independent reviews of best research evidence regarding treatment decisions. Now, selections from this service are brought to you via podcast. Read more »
- 13 Apr 2009
Working in the health sector and needing a 'pick me up'? This website is essentially an archive of short video clips featuring health professionals from various background talking about what keeps them interested, engaged and (as per the label on the box) passionate about their work. Read more »
- 22 Aug 2008
Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroanatomist from the United States, whose perspective on brain function and neuropathology changed after she suffered a stroke. Read more »
- 02 Jul 2008
The 'Stay Up Late Campaign' is a social movement to put a halt to people with learning disabilities having to leave clubs and music gigs early because their staff finish their shifts at 10pm! Read about the movement and its main champions, "Heavy Load", a UK punk band consisting of musicians both with and without intellectual disability. Read more »
- 06 Jun 2008
Got a disease that only you can pronounce? Or perhaps you recently had a patient come to your clinic with a disorder that you secretly had to look up in a textbook to find out what it was? Maybe you are just looking for information and support to provide people with one of the hundreds of less common pathologies? Then this website is for you. Read more »
- 06 Jun 2008
Ben Goldacre's Bad Science column from the Guardian presented as a weblog. An entertaining and sometimes crazy look at the way the media (and others) misrepresent science. Read more »
- 18 Oct 2007
AllNurses is a forum with an active online community of over 243,000 registered members and 500 nursing topics. A section has been allocated to 'rehabilitation nursing'. Directions are given here to access the website and navigate its content. Read more »
Having reviewed over the last year a number of web-based discussion boards that have been either deserted or populated mainly by spam, it’s nice to finally find one or two to write positively about. This one is a forum for discussion of physiotherapy - or "physical therapy" as they call it in the US. Read more »
Will Taylor
