Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation

Program Summary

Physiotherapy professionals are concerned with treating every type of injury that causes movement difficulties to healthy people, and pain and functional disabilities to the ill, the handicapped and the elderly by applying the evaluation methods of physiotherapy and rehabilitation for treatment after the diagnosis of a specialist physician.

The profession carries important responsibilities in planning and applying courses of treatment that have been developed by physiotherapists.

The goal of the department is to graduate physiotherapists who can contribute to an active and independent life for people who are well or handicapped; who will apply the principles of physiotherapy and rehabilitation with a knowledge-based skill that incorporates approaches that contribute to the quality of life physically, psychologically, socially and environmentally; and who will be able to contribute to society as a whole by contributing to the development and productivity of patients in a wide variety of venues.