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Academic Focus: The Bachelor of Physiotherapy course deals with the assessment, planning, and implementation of rehabilitation programs. This course helps the student to strengthen the foundation by having a clear understanding of the subject and the importance of hands-on technique to cure the pain of the patient. The practical approach for assessment, diagnosis, and treatment with the association of outdoor facilities available in college makes them learn to connect the theoretical and clinical concepts together. Towards the end of the programme, the students can independently practice and are enriched with theoretical and clinical knowledge and can better understand the patient’s pain and even help people at any stage of life in every sphere of society. The Master of Physiotherapy programme aims to prepare postgraduate students towards their professional autonomy and inculcate the concept of research and evidence-based practice. The programme also aims to incorporate the concept of management in Physiotherapy and experience in clinical training, and undergraduate teaching, partly, to acquaint the student with the concept of quality care at the institutional as well as the community level..
Career Scope: Physical therapy is one of the most popular courses in modern medicine in the world, and throughout the academic era spread over decades. Physiotherapy is a health care profession that views human movements as central to the health and well-being of an individual. It is a system of treatment of disease and disability using physical exercises, electrotherapeutic modalities, and manual therapy techniques with referral and first-contact clinical practice.
It is the most important rehabilitative service needed in a community and a vital therapeutic supplement to the medical profession, making it integral to the treatment of most patients. Physiotherapists are as essential as doctors in helping to recover and rehabilitate a patient. They must have a thorough knowledge of human anatomy and the way the bones, muscles, and nerves move. Physiotherapists treat a wide range of ailments, so specialization is possible in areas such as Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Orthopedics, Sports Physical Therapy, Neurology, Clinical Electro Physiology, Cardiopulmonary Therapy, Hand Rehab, Biomechanics, Manual Therapy, Gynecology, Ergonomics and Physiotherapists have a wide range of scope in India as well as abroad. Physiotherapists are appointed in hospitals with a role in critical care, early intervention programmes with the national health delivery system, primary health centres, educational institutions, research centers, special schools, community centers, and in sports teams. The job of a physiotherapist, which is preventive, restorative and rehabilitative, is challenging but lucrative at the same time.