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Rehabilitation Textbooks

Physical Therapy Resources

 

Name Source Notes License
Musculoskeletal Pathophysiology MIT An online course module by Dwight R. Robinson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2006 "This course covers the growth, development and structure of normal bone and joints, the biomechanics of bone connective tissues, and their response to stress, calcium and phosphate homeostasis.  BY-NC-SA
Clinical Anatomy UBC An interactive website from The University of British Columbia.   There are illustrations as well as videos showing, for example, lateral translation pelvic movement.   BY-NC-SA
Building Bridges: Establishing a Foundation for Interprofessional Collaboration in Healthcare (Revised) (2025) Open Textbook Library This book will help students achieve success not only in their educational program, but as they experience various healthcare settings through internships and employment. This resource is targeted for students in healthcare professions. CC BY-NC-SA
Qualitative Research - A Practical Guide for Health & Social Care Researchers & Practitioners (2023) Open Textbook Library Designed to support health and social care researchers and practitioners to integrate qualitative research into the evidence base of health and social care research. CC BY-NC
Physical Therapy Effectiveness (2020)

InTech

Open

Topics on different approaches have been included in this book, useful for readers to improve their professional performance.  
Physical Therapy: Towards Evidence-Based Practice (2024) InTech Open Chapters are organized into three sections: "Physical Therapy Theory", "Physical Therapy Assessment", and "Physical Therapy Practice". This book will help healthcare professionals establish evidence-based physical therapy and deliver optimal physical therapy to their patients.  

 

OER Resources

  • Digital Commons Network: Medicine and Health Sciences Commons: Full-text scholarly articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work curated by academic librarians.
  • Merlot: OER Databases - Health Sciences: Materials for teaching and learning experiences, content creation tools, led by educators, learners and researchers.
  • Merlot: Occupational Therapy 
  • Merlot: Athletic Training
  • Health Education Assets Library (HEAL): Collection of over 22K digital materials for health sciences education. House at University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Digital Library.
  • Medline Plus: Interactive Health Games - Boost your knowledge by playing these interactive health games. 
  • MIT OpenCourseWare: Courses for Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation. You'll find complete courses with syllabi, readings, lecture notes and videos to use for teaching, learning and adopting. Courses are downloadable. 
  • OER Commons: Health, Medical & Nursing Collection: Scholarly papers, full university courses, open textbooks, adaptations of existing open work.
  • OERTX Repository: Multidisciplinary resource for open textbooks and online instruction materials for higher education covering a wide range of academic disciplines. Includes texts, lectures, syllabi, and more.
  • Open MIchigan: Medical Resources Provides a spectrum of comprehensive knowledge, research, and patient care
  • OpenStax: eTextbooks collection: Peer-Reviewed open educational resources. Find Anatomy & Physiology, biology, Nutrition & Pharmacology, Population & Community Health, eTextbooks provided by Rice University.
  • Open Availability Sources Integrated Search (OASIS): Textbooks, TEDTalks, videos, podcasts, interactive simulations, courses, over 400K open resources over a variety of subjects. 
  • The Open University: Courses, videos, articles, audio, activities, quizzes, games and collections of open-source scholarly materials.
  • PubMed Central: PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM) 

 

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