Program Overview

The DPT program in the institute is 5-year clinical doctorate program registered with Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. This program equips physical therapy graduates with advanced and specialized clinical rehabilitative skills in physical therapy that enable them to provide scientific and updated evidence-based physical therapy approaches while dealing patients in indoor and outdoor facilities. Moreover, this enables the graduate students to receive scientific knowledge and skills that are deemed essential to critically evaluate and contribute to current research in the basic and the applied sciences relevant to disorders of the musculoskeletal, cardiopulmonary and neurological systems. Apart from the latter inherent characteristics in the program, it is designed to meet both national and international standards fulfilling criteria for further higher education in physical therapy. Following completion of Doctor of Physical therapy, an individual starts professional career as a ‘Physical Therapist’. Physical therapy is an essential segment of modern healthcare system that has been defined as a ’science of healing and art of caring’. It pertains to the evaluation, assessment and treatment of musculoskeletal, Neurological, Cardio-Vascular and Respiratory systems’ functional disorders including symptoms of pain, edema, and physiological, structural and psychosomatic ailments. It also deals with methods of treatment based on movement, manual therapy, physical agents, and therapeutics modalities to relieve pain and other complications. In general, physical therapy covers basic parameters of healing sciences i.e. preventive, diagnostic, and rehabilitative and curative.