• www.wcpt.org World Confederation for Physical Therapy
• American Physical Therapy Association
• Australian Physiotherapy Association
• Austrian Physiotherapy Association
• Canadian Physiotherapy Association
• Danish Physiotherapy Association
• Finnish Association of Physical Therapists
• German Physiotherapy Association
• Icelandic Physiotherapy Association
• Indian Association of Physiotherapists
• The Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists
• The Japanese Physical Therapy Association
• Korean Physical Therapy Association
• New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists
• Norwegian Physiotherapy Association
• Singapore Physiotherapy Association
• South African Society of Physiotherapy
• Spanish Physiotherapy Association
• Swedish Association of registered Physiotherapists
• (UK) Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
• www.iran-pta.com
• (Taiwan) The Physical Therapy Association of The R.O.C.

USEFUL WEBSITES WITH PHYSIOTHERAPY RELATED INFORMATION

General
World Health Organisation (WHO)
www.who.int

The WHO World Health Report
http://www.who.int/whr/en/

The WHO country reports – Afghanistan
http://www.who.int/countries/afg/en/

Bulletin of the World Health Organisation
http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0042-9686&lng=en&nrm=iso

International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
General Information via WHO website: http://www.who.int/classifications/icf/en/
Online version of the Classification: http://www.who.int/classifications/icf/site/onlinebrowser/icf.cfm

United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm

Physiotherapy
World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT): www.wcpt.org

The Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA): http://apa.advsol.com.au/

The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA): www.apta.org

The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) (Great Britain): www.csp.org.uk

The Indian Association of Physiotherapists: www.physiotherapyindia.org

Disability and rehabilitation
Disability Organizations in Predominantly Muslim Countries
http://www.miusa.org/ncde/spotlight/muslimdisability/muslimdpos

AIFO – International Consultation on CBR – various CBR papers
http://www.aifo.it/english/resources/online/books/cbr/reviewofcbr/contents.htm

Asia Pacific Disability Rehabilitation Journal
http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/asia/resource/apdrj/apdrj.html

Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE)
http://cirrie.buffalo.edu/index.html

GLOBAL-Health – health education. Contains lots of good documents to be downloaded free of charge.
http://www.global-help.org/

AfriCAN – Community Based Rehabilitation African network
www.afri-can.org

Preventing falls among older adults – from this link documents can be dowloaded with useful information about how to go about fall prevention in elderly, with a community-based approach.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/preventingfalls/

Databases and health information
Medline plus – health information
http://medlineplus.gov/

MEDLINE – search motor for life- and biomedical sciences
http://medline.cos.com/

Pubmed  - a search motor articles on more general articles related to health, medicine, disability, including physiotherapy.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/

CINAHL Information systems - a search motor articles on more general articles related to health, medicine, disability, including physiotherapy.
http://www.cinahl.com/prodsvcs/cinahldb.htm

PEDro – a search motor dedicated to physiotherapy
http://www.pedro.fhs.usyd.edu.au/index.html