A Physio Student’s Guide to Course Resources

As a student it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the amount of information available to us online to help with studies, and to help keep us exploring the many career paths that are available to us when we qualify as a registered physiotherapist.

Therefore, we have created our go to resources that we use and have found helpful. Everyone has a slightly different learning style, and so we have tried to include a variety of resources which you might find helpful.

Anatomy and Physiology / Musculoskeletal

• Concise Guide to Muscles - An illustrative guide to the major muscle groups providing information on palpation, origins, insertions, nerve supply, action and strengthening exercises for specific muscles written by Chris Jarmey.

• Netter’s Anatomy Colouring Book - An interactive resource providing a visual learning platform with multiple views of dissection layers and clinical examples present throughout to reinforce multi-system anatomical understanding written by Dr John T. Hansen.

• Human Movement & Anatomy Pocketbook- Palastanga

• Clinical Sports Medicine - Brukner and Khan

• Crash Course: Anatomy - Dykes and Watson

• Field’s Anatomy Palpation and Surface Markings

• Anatomy Trains

• A Practical Guide to Musculoskeletal Medicine

• A Trail Guide to the Body

• Colour Atlas of the Human Body

• Netter’s Anatomy Colouring Books

• Anatomy TV

• Acklands Anatomy (Dissection)

• Ken Hub

• The Physio Matters Podcast

• The EBP Podcast

• Physio Edge Podcast

• Clinical Physio Website & Youtube Channel

• Teach Me Anatomy Website & App

• Physiotec Website & App *you get free access to this as a CSP student member!

• Rheumatology Physiotherapy

• The Physio Tutor Website

Neurology

• Neurological Physiotherapy Pocketbook- Stokes and Lennon

• Physical Management for Neurological Conditions - Stokes and Stack

• Neuromusculoskeletal Examination and Assessment

• Neurological Assessment: A Clinician’s Guide - Karen Jones

• Clinical Neuroanatomy – Waxman

• STAR Stroke e-Learning Module

• FAME exercises

• Multiple Sclerosis e-Module

• Understanding Parkinson’s for health and social care staff

• ViaTherapy App

Cardio-Respiratory

• Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy: Adults and Paediatrics - Main and Denehy

• Respiratory Physiotherapy Pocketbook

• Physiotherapy for Respiratory and Cardiac Problems - Pryor and Prasad

• Crash Course: Cardiovascular System - Fabian and Sunthareswaran

• Hough’s Cardiorespiratory Care

• e-Learning for Health Respiratory Module

Other

• Clinical Case Studies in Physiotherapy: A Guide For Students and Graduates

• Royal college of GPs e-learning

• Tidy’s Physiotherapy – Porter

• The Physiotherapy Pocketbook - Kenyon & Kenyon

• Women’s Health: A Textbook for Physiotherapists - Ruth Sapsford

• Motivational Interviewing 3rd Ed.

• Interprofessional Rehabilitation - Dean, Siegert and Taylor

• Developmental Anatomy and Physiology of Children - Charnley, Carson, Randall, Sandwell

• Clinical Physio Webinars

• Therapy Live Conferences

• At Your Cervix Podcast

• Two Paeds in a Pod

• BMJ Talk Medicine

• AHPs Off the Record Podcast

• Physiopedia Website

• Learning Physiotherapy Website

• Geeky Medics Website

• The CSP Website – especially the Discovery Hub

• Future Learn e-Learning courses

Let us know in the comments below if there are any others we’ve missed which you find particularly useful. There are also a number of accounts to follow on social media which we recommend, but that will be covered in a separate post.

Don’t forget - don’t buy all the textbooks as soon as you start the course! They are expensive and you may not end up using them. Borrow them from the library or access the ebook versions first.

Good luck!

Written by Laura Bunce, Future Frontline Physiotherapy Officer and final year MSc Student.