Additional Learning Resources

Published: 06/06/2020 

Updated: 1/11/2022

Here are other useful books I have found. Although they are not necessarily the best for 'core' reading books I have found them useful for placement or for my own personal learning. 

General

Physiotools student licence

https://www.physiotools.com/physiotools-student-licence-0?fbclid=IwAR20XXNDZYXzeQKq1EsO1BibyvLLkbA2-66_iyESZZXWFzKOy5Mfhq3qW-0#

This website will enable you to view the existing exercise templates and try creating your own for your placement patients prior to approval by your practice educator. 

Musculoskeletal

Cram Session in Goniometry: A Handbook for Students and Clinicians by Lynn Van Ost

A small book which summarises the methods for region specific measurement of joint movements (e.g. flexion, extension, abduction and adduction, medial and lateral rotation and opposition). 

South Tees community Musculoskeletal Outpatient Physiotherapy Student Placement Pack
https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/content/uploads/Student-Placement-Pack-final-version.pdf

A good resource which has region-specific summaries of MSK assessment, conditions, and resources for management. 

Respiratory

Respiratory physiotherapy: an on-call survival guide Edited by Beverly Harden

Principles of Pulmonary medicine by Steven E. Weinberger, Barbara A. Cockrill and Jess Mandell

This book provides a summary of the different respiratory conditions, their clinical characteristics and their medical management. 

Neurological

Pocketbook of Neurological Physiotherapy Edited by Sheila Lennon and Maria Stokes

Physiology

Teach me anatomy: https://teachmephysiology.com/