Library Guides: Physical Therapy: Find Articles

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CINAHL (EBSCOHOST)

CINAHL Complete is a comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL.

PubMed (MEDLINE)

PubMed comprises more than 38 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. This link requires an NSU login, and will include links to options for finding full text of articles.
Note: If you prefer, you can also search MEDLINE via the EBSCO or OVID search interfaces.

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