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Increase in Articles Published About Massage in PubMed

From the 1980s to the 1990s there was a 50 percent increase in the number of articles written on massage indexed in PubMed, while from the 1990s until 2007 there was a 35 percent increase. Overall from 1980s to the 2000s there was a 102 percent increase.

How Do I Actually Find the Full Text fo an Article?

You have just completed a search and located a citation for a great article. You cannot find the full text online. Now what? There are several options available.

  1. Public or university library — Contact your local public or university library and provide them with the citation for the article you wish to obtain. If they don’t have access to the article within their collection, they should be able to obtain the article for you from a library that does. Depending on your library’s policy, this may be a free service or available for a fee.
  2. Affiliation with health care organization — If you have an affiliation with a health care organization such as a hospital, check to see if a medical library is available at the facility. The library staff can assist you in obtaining your needed article.
  3. Loansome Doc—Loansome Doc is a service provided by the National Library of Medicine to help you locate an article from a medical library. Registration is required and can be completed at https://docline.gov/loansome/login.cfm. Local fees and methods of article delivery vary regionally. A nice feature of Loansome Doc is that it is connected to PubMed. So if you located an article in the PubMed database, you can order from the citation screen. Articles not available in PubMed can also be ordered. For more information on this service, please visit www.nlm.nih.gov/loansomedoc/loansome_home.html.
  4. Purchase directly from publisher’s website — Often you can locate the full text of an article from the publisher’s website. However, this is usually the most costly method of obtaining an article and can vary from about $10 to $40 depending on the journal and the publisher.

Evidence-Based Practice: Why Should I Care?

Evidence-based practice began in clinical medicine as a concept to use the current best evidence in the literature to make health care decisions. This extends to massage therapists and their practice as clients often seek your assistance in relieving medical conditions. Knowing what evidence and research is available on the work that you do can provide you with the tools and knowledge needed to assist these clients.

For a step-by-step walk through of the searches outlined in this article, please visit www.amtamassage.org/mtj and click on the “online exclusives” link.

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