Some Useful Osteopathic Web Links

Accredited osteopathic education institutions:

When looking for research activity within the profession and the research profile of the different educational institutions, the colleges’ own websites are useful. Listed alphabetically they are:

• British College of Osteopathic Medicine:
www.bcom.ac.uk.

This site also lists the titles of presentations made at all five International Conferences on Advances in Osteopathic Research (ICAOR).

• British School of Osteopathy:
www.bso.ac.uk

• College of Osteopaths:
www.collegeofosteopaths.ac.uk

• European School of Osteopathy:
www.eso.ac.uk

• London College of Osteopathic Medicine:
www.members.aol.com/londonosteomedic/lcom.html

• London School of Osteopathy:
www.londonschoolofosteopathy.com

• Oxford Brookes University:
www.brookes.ac.uk

• Surrey Institute of Osteopathic Medicine:
www.nescot.ac.uk

In addition, the BSO produces the Osteopathic Research and Treatment Bulletin: www.bso.ac.uk/sm4ortb.htm.

Details of undergraduate osteopathic research, including contributions fro the BSO, can also be found on the website for the Vienna School of Osteopathy:
www.osteopathic-research.com.

Registering and professional bodies:

Useful information can be found on these sites for the United Kingdom osteopathic profession and its counterparts overseas:

• The General Osteopathic Council:
www.osteopathy.org.uk

• The Institute of Osteopathy
www.osteopathy.org

• American Osteopathic Association:
http://do-online.osteotech.org/index.cfm

• Australian Osteopathic Association: www.osteopathic.com.au

• Canadian Osteopathic College: www.osteopathiecollege.com

General osteopathic resources:

Approximately 500,000 sites can be found relating to osteopathy if the term is typed into Google. Many of these are solely for marketing purposes and the scant information is often of limited use. Examples of some good general sites are:

• Osteopath – 222 of the best sites:
www.cbel.com/osteopathy

• Osteopathic Resources: www.osteopathonline.com/Resources

• Spine Information:
www.spine-health.com

• The Osteopathic Home Page:
www.osteohome.com

Societies for areas of special interest:

• Arthritis and Musculo-skeletal Alliance:
www.arma.uk.net

• Australian Spine Society:
www.cms.uwa.edu.au

• Cervical Spine Research Society:
www.csrs.org

• Migraine Action Organisation:
www.migraine.org.uk

• Scoliosis Research Society:
www.srs.org

• Society for Back Pain Research:
www.boa.ac.uk

• The Migraine Trust:
www.migrainetrust.org

• The Sutherland Society:
www.cranial.org.uk

Sites for evidence-based medicine:

• Effective healthcare bulletins: www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/ehcb.htm

• Effectiveness matters:
www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/em.htm

• Evidence-based management of musculoskeletal pain: www.nhmrc.gov.au/publications/synopses/cp94syn.htm

• Internet Resources in Health and Medicine:
http://omni.ac.uk

• National Institute for Clinical Evidence:
www.nice.org.uk/

www.nettingtheevidence.org.uk

Other useful websites:

• University of Texas:
http://atc.utmb.edu/altmed/

Information about a number of useful CAM sites and databases for students.

• Osteopathic Centre for Children:
www.occ.uk.com

• Osteopathic Sports Care Association:
www.osca.org.uk

• Children’s Hospital Boston: www.childrenshospital.org/holistic/

The Centre for Holistic Paediatric Education and Research (CHPER) is devoted to improving the wellbeing of children through advances in holistic healthcare.

• Complementary/Integrative Medicine Education Resources of MD Anderson Cancer Centre
www.mdanderson.org/cimer

A good site for cancer therapy information.

• Rosenthal Centre for CAM Research on Women’s Health, funded by NIH:
www.rosenthal.hs.columbia.edu/

• National Electronic Library for Health (NELH):
www.nelh.nhs.uk/.

This particularly useful site has links to a number of other valuable sites.

• Bandolier: This is an independent journal about evidence based healthcare written by Oxford scientists. It is a source of high quality information for healthcare professionals, patients and their carers. Information comes from systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomised trials and from high quality observational studies.

www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/Research

• The Cochrane Library: The Cochrane collaboration was founded in 1993 and is an international nonprofit and independent organisation. It produces and disseminates systematic reviews of healthcare interventions.
www.update-software.com/cochrane/ cochrane-frame.html

• Health Information for London Online ( HILO): www.hilo.nhs.uk

• Health Education Resources Online (HERO): www.hero.ac.uk

• Central Office for Research Ethics:
www.corec.org.uk

• Current Trials in Medicine:
www.controlled-trials.com

• National Research Register of Health Related Research Projects in England, Scotland and Wales:
www.update-software.com/national/default.htm

• Research Councils ( UK):
www.rcuk.ac.uk

• Medical Research Council:
www.mrc.ac.uk

• Department of Health:
www.dh.gov.uk

• Faculty of Public Health:
www.fphm.org.uk

• Anglo European College of Chiropractic:
www.aecc.ac.uk

• British Chiropractic Association:
www.chiropractic-uk.co.uk

• British Dietetic Association:
www.bda.uk.com
www.bdaweightwise.com

• Chartered Society of Physiotherapy:
www.csp.org.uk

• General Chiropractic Council:
www.gcc-uk.org

• Quackwatch:
www.quackwatch.org

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Databases:

These will list all previously published research and other osteopathic literature.

• To improve your search techniques:
www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/adept/

• SUMSEARCH:
http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu/

To access Pub Med, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health), Cochrane, Merck and Guidelines databases.

• Medline (Pub Med):
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

• The Osteopathic Literature Database: www.ostmed.hsc.unt.edu/ostmed/index.html

• Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro): www.pedro.fhs.usyd.edu.au/index.html

• Database of Abstracts of Reviews and Effectiveness (DARE):
www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/

• TRIP database:
www.tripdatabase.com/

• Allied and Complementary Medicine (AMED) database: www.bl.uk/collections/health/amed.html

• NIH International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS):
http://dietarysupplementsinfo.nih.gov/databases/ibids.html

A database of published international scientific literature on dietary supplements.

• The Arthritis and Complementary Medicine Database (ARCAM) and the Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Pain Database (CAMPAIN):
www.compmed.umm.edu/Databases.html

Journals:

These will give current published research. Some journals will give free access to full text articles over a certain age e.g. 12 months since publication.

• Osteopathy Today:
www.osteopathy.org/ot/osteopathy_today.htm

• British Medical Journal:
www.bmj.com

• Clinical Evidence:
www.clinicalevidence.com/ceweb/conditions/ msd/msd.jsp

• Spine:
www.spinejournal.com

• New England Journal of Medicine:
http://content.nejm.org

• Manual Therapy:
www.harcourtinternational. com/journals/math

• Journal of the American Osteopathic Association:
www.jaoa.org/

• Free Medical Journals:
www.freemedicaljournals.com

• Pain:
www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home

• European Journal of Pain:
www.harcourtinternational.com/journals/eujp

• Science Direct:
www.sciencedirect.com/science

• The Lancet:
www.thelancet.com