| Okan University Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Department welcomes students starting with the 2011-2012 academic year.Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation program is developed in line with the developing country’s university programs and includes one preparatory and four undergraduate years.Applicable in various medical areas; physical therapy and rehabilitation is a discipline that remedies functional disorders after every kind of diseases that cause movement disabilities, injuries, senility and painful occasions with appropriate physical therapy approaches and scientific methodologies A physical therapist is a healthcare personnel who specifies functional limitations, pain, disabilities and abilities caused by injuries, diseases, congenital deformities, movement disabilities or any other cases with specific measurement, evaluation and examination techniques. The physical therapist designs, implements, reevaluate and reports physical therapy and rehabilitation programs for improving functional capacity in line with the specialist physician’s diagnosis. For healthy individuals; the physical therapist plans relevant exercises, protecting programs in order to prolong the continuity of sanitary conditions.Our education program covers basic sciences, clinic sciences, occupational courses, research methodologies, seminars and clinic studies in order to plan and apply treatment programs for the problems stated before. Our department offers students clinical practices at the most distinguished hospitals in Istanbul in such areas as neurologic and neurosurgical rehabilitation, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, pediatric rehabilitation, women’s health and gynecologic rehabilitation, hand surgery rehabilitation, occupational therapy, rheumatologic rehabilitation, prosthesis- orthesis and biomechanics, sportsman health and rehabilitation etc. The students are also going to have the opportunities of summer internships at both national and foreign health care institutions. |
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