Message from the Head of Department

Dear Students,

Physiotherapy and rehabilitation is a branch of science in which physiotherapists apply approaches aimed at improving and maintaining functional capacity before or after diseases, injuries, aging and painful conditions that can be applied in many fields of medicine and that particularly lead to movement and functional impairments.

A physiotherapist is a health professional with professional autonomy who identifies problems arising from injury, disease, congenital disability, movement system disorders or other conditions through specialized assessment and evaluation methods; plans and applies, according to the diagnosis of the medical specialist, a physiotherapy and rehabilitation program aimed at developing functional capacity, re-evaluates and reports on it; and, in addition, plans appropriate exercises and preventive programs to maintain the health of healthy individuals. Physiotherapists, who have a wide field of work in public and private institutions, can pursue graduate education, scientific expertise and doctoral studies after graduation, and can work as academic staff in physiotherapy and rehabilitation departments.

Admission of students to the Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Department, which is part of our University’s Faculty of Health Sciences, began in 2011-2012, and education and teaching activities continue with growing strength. Modeled on schools in developed countries and prepared with a contemporary approach, the training program in our Department has been implemented for four years. The training program includes basic sciences, clinical sciences, professional courses, research methodology, seminars and clinical work, aimed at planning and implementing the treatment program for the problems mentioned above. Through the Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Application and Research Center Units established at our University, and in many hospitals and institutions in Gaziantep province, there is an opportunity to carry out clinical work and practice in important fields such as neurological rehabilitation, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, pediatric rehabilitation, orthopedic rehabilitation, sports health, physiotherapy in burns, prosthetics, orthotics and biomechanics, hand rehabilitation and spinal health.

For the physiotherapy profession, which provides employment in many fields of medicine in the world and in our country, we are waiting for you, our dear young people, in our Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Department.

I wish you all health, happiness and success.

With love and respect,