What makes a good Physiopedia page

Original Editor - George Pruden Top Contributors - Richard Benes, Kim Jackson, Admin, Tony Lowe and Mahbubur Rahman  

Introduction

Physiopedia is a universally accessible, online resource created for rehabilitation professionals worldwide. A page on Physiopedia should be informative, based on best-evidence practice, and contain links to relevant media resources.

Overall Format

Page title

Does the title already exist? Run a search for the page you want to create or update, or scan through the full list of Physiopedia articles. If it does not exist - feel free to create it. If it already exists - review and update it. If there is more than one page on the same topic - ask the Physiopedia team to merge them into one page.

Abbreviations and Special Characters! - When choosing your page title please avoid abbreviations and special characters such as backslash ("/"), apostrophe (" ' "), colon (":"), coma (" , "), or ampersand ("&"). Only use parentheses (" () ") if highlighting a commonly used abbreviated term. See the example below

Is my title clear and capitalised correctly? The standard format for titles is to capitalise only the first letter of each word, but not articles (a/a/the), prepositions (to/on/for) or conjunctions (and/but/for). Try not to use ACRONYMS alone as titles, except in parentheses. Example: Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)

Layout

Does the page have the appropriate headings? View the Physiopedia templates and choose one that fits the correct category (ie. joint, muscle, ligament, outcome measure, special test). You can use these templates to create a good layout for your page. Refer to the Adding Templates tutorial to add a template to a new page.

No template for the page you want to make? Use the new page template and create your own subheadings.

Editors

Are the editors credited at the top of the page? For this you need to add a special bit of text to the source code. If it wasn't added with the template often the easiest way to do this is to look at a page that already has the editors correctly displayed, go into the source editing mode, copy the appropriate text and add it to the page you are working on. Refer to the Adding Editors tutorial.

Categories

Is the page categorised? All pages must be categorised. Refer to the Adding Categories tutorial.

References

Are the references cited correctly? Be sure to read about Referencing.

Does the page use Vancouver style of referencing? Refer to the Adding References tutorial.

Rehabilitation Specific and Clinically Relevant

A good page should convey knowledge of the profession and current best-evidence practice. All submissions should be written in the English language in a clear and concise manner.

Relate to Rehabilitation

Does the page have sections and headings that are relevant for rehabilitation professionals? Good examples of this include: Pathology, Therapy Techniques (Palpation, Stretch, Treatment techniques), Clinical Examination (such as Differential Diagnosis, Special Tests and Outcome Measures) and Rehabilitation Management. These sections are generally included in the templates.

Clinically Relevant

Is the content clinically relevant? Every page should provide information that can potentially impact a person's clinical practice. For example, are evidence based rehabilitation interventions for a condition described; has it been stated why it is important to know about a specific anatomy; does include a demonstration on how to do a special test and stated when it is effective to use that test.

Ethics and Integrity

Ensure the work you upload is your own! It is important that any work you add to Physiopedia is created by yourself and is not copied from other sources, this is plagiarism (even if you reference the work). If you are not sure about the rules of copyright you can read a brief overview here.

Protect and Respect Others! When writing case studies ensure that peoples identity are protected. It is also important to always use person-first language, write with respect about a person with a disability. Put the person first not the disability. For example write “a person with …” or, “person who has …” and avoid phrases such as ...suffering with (condition)

Use of Relevant Media Resources

Physiopedia is designed to be an educational and clinical tool, so visual references (including relevant images, videos and presentations) and clinical resources (guidelines and protocols) are great ways to enhance an article.

Are the resources added correctly? Refer to the Adding Images , Adding Video , Adding Links and Adding PDFs tutorials. Most importantly, we must have permission to use the image or video that we are adding to the page, it should fall under one of the following categories:

• Be clinically relevant to the topic being discussed
• Be copyright free – such as Grays Anatomy Illustrations (for images) and YouTube (for videos).
• Have a creative commons license that allows us to use it – such as Wikimedia Commons.
• Be a resource that you have created.
• Be a resource that you have specifically had permission to use.

Media Resources

Examples of relevant media include:

• Images: Anatomy, diagrams, illustrations, infographics, photos etc.
• Videos: Handling or rehabilitation protocols, exercises, or manual techniques such as palpation, massage, range of motion etc.

Clinical Resources

Examples of clinical resources include:

• Clinical guidelines: link to where these can be viewed at their original location on the web or if you have permission upload them as a file.
• Outcome measures: these also need to link where they can be viewed at their original location on the web or if you have permission upload them as a file.
• Protocols: again, link to where these can be viewed at their original location on the web or if you have permission upload them as a file.

Additional Resources

Quality Standards Academic Integrity

How to Write a Case Study