About Us

Physiotherapy is a profession that plans and applies treatment approaches by using field-specific assessment methods in cases of injuries and diseases that cause movement disorders, in aging, and in conditions involving pain and functional impairments. Physiotherapists are health professionals who take on significant roles in maintaining and improving the health and quality of life of individuals and society, with the core philosophy of sustaining well-being and healing.

The foundation of the Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation program is movement science. The scope of education includes the basic sciences related to movement, body systems, the most common diseases, principles of nutrition, and exercise science.

In the first years of undergraduate education, students of the Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Department gain fundamental knowledge about the structure and functioning of the human body, such as anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, medical biology, biochemistry, and histology, along with communication, ethics, critical thinking, and behavioral sciences for professional and transferable skills. Later, they receive both theoretical and practical training in professional knowledge and skills, including measurement and evaluation, treatment principles, and treatment methods such as electrotherapy, manual therapy, neurophysiological approaches, and aquatherapy; as well as rehabilitation areas such as orthopedics, neurology, cardiopulmonary, pediatrics, prosthetics-orthotics, geriatrics, rheumatology, and women’s and men’s health.

Graduates of the Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation program can establish Private Health Service Units and Healthy Life & Exercise Counseling Centers. Together with Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation specialists, they can open Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Branch Centers. They may also establish Elderly Care and Rehabilitation Centers or Special Education and Rehabilitation Centers. Graduates may work in private and public healthcare institutions, university or state hospitals, thermal spa rehabilitation centers, or sports clubs. They may pursue graduate education, specialize in one of the fields of physiotherapy and rehabilitation to achieve the status of “Specialist Physiotherapist,” or follow an academic career.

The healthcare sector today is of strategic importance and economic value for the entire world. Healthcare will remain an essential service as long as humanity exists. Therefore, the demand for healthcare services continues to increase. Since health directly affects human life, the quality of personnel providing healthcare services has always been of critical importance. With the extension of average life expectancy and the increase in the elderly population, the expectation for healthy aging, the growing use of technology in healthcare, and the parallel increase in the number of diagnosable diseases, society’s expectations of healthcare services have risen as a whole. As a result, training qualified healthcare professionals has become increasingly important.

Today, the demands of individuals receiving healthcare services, together with the expectations of a developing and globalizing world, have made “quality” a priority in healthcare. Quality in healthcare can only be ensured with a qualified workforce. In particular, the economic, social, technological, and scientific developments and changes of recent years require a transformation in healthcare services. To fulfill the requirements of this transformation, educational institutions that train qualified personnel are essential. Due to advancing technology, societies in both the world and our country are becoming increasingly sedentary, making the need for physiotherapists today and in the future inevitable.

Head

Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation

​Asst. Prof. Barış Gürpınar