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Checked physiotherapy and rehabilitation resources for students and faculty, practising clinicians, and patients, families and caregivers.

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Line drawing of a standing human figure with the spine and major joints marked An original front-view line drawing of an adult standing upright, arms relaxed at the sides with the palms facing forward. Inside the body outline are the skull, the full spinal column (seven cervical, twelve thoracic and five lumbar vertebrae, then the sacrum), the rib cage and sternum, the clavicles, the pelvis, and the long bones of the arms and legs. Small nodes mark the shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles. A thin teal line runs from the base of the skull down the spine into one leg, and from the upper spine across the shoulder and down one arm, as a movement pathway. Three labels point to the neck, an elbow and a knee: Neural control, Assessment and Movement. NEURAL CONTROL ASSESSMENT MOVEMENT

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One library, three ways in

The same checked sources, framed for how each reader uses them.

An open anatomy textbook beside a model of the spine An open book lies on a desk. The left page shows a line drawing of a vertebra seen from above; the right page has lines of text, shown as plain bars. Beside it a model of the spine stands on a base, seen from the side, with its natural curves: forward in the neck, backward in the upper back and forward in the lower back.

Students & Faculty

Subjects of the degree, practical skills, exam preparation and the evidence skills behind them.

A physiotherapist measuring the knee angle of a seated patient A patient sits on the edge of a treatment couch with the knee bent over the edge. A physiotherapist in a knee-length tunic and trousers, hair tied back, stands facing the patient and holds a goniometer at the side of the knee: one arm of the goniometer lies along the thigh and the other along the lower leg. No faces are drawn.

Physiotherapists & Clinicians

Outcome measures, modalities and clinical reasoning, each with what the evidence does and does not support.

An older man walking with a stick, supported by a caregiver Two people walk together at home. An older man in a kurta and pyjama walks with a walking stick in his front hand. Just behind him a woman in a salwar kameez with a dupatta over her shoulder walks beside him with her hand on his back. A window and a potted plant are in the background. No faces are drawn.

Patients & Caregivers

Plain-language condition guides for people living with a condition and the people helping them.

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Body explorer Front view of a standing adult figure, drawn in outline, with the spine and joints shown faintly. Seven regions can be chosen: head and neck, shoulder, spine and trunk, elbow wrist and hand, hip and pelvis, knee, and ankle and foot. Each region is a button. Use Tab or the arrow keys to move between regions and Enter or Space to choose one. The same regions are also listed as plain text beside or below the figure. Head and neckSpine and trunkShoulderElbow, wrist and handHip and pelvisKneeAnkle and foot

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Featured guides

Six condition guides to start with

One from each of six specialties. Reading time is the guide’s word count at 200 words a minute.

Condition guide

Low Back Pain

Musculoskeletal

Why almost no case has an identifiable cause, why the scan usually misleads, and what guidelines recommend instead of rest.

14 min readLast reviewed

Condition guide

Stroke Rehabilitation

Neurological

What rehabilitation involves, when it should start, and why the largest trial found that mobilising within 24 hours did not improve recovery.

11 min readLast reviewed

Condition guide

COPD and Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Cardiopulmonary

Cochrane closed the review because the question was settled. The open problem is access.

14 min readLast reviewed

Condition guide

Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation

Women’s & pelvic health

Eight times more likely to report cure than no treatment. Rarely discussed, highly treatable.

12 min readLast reviewed

Condition guide

Falls Prevention in Older Adults

Older adults & balance

High-certainty evidence that exercise works — and equally firm evidence that it stops working when you stop.

15 min readLast reviewed

Condition guide

Paediatric Physiotherapy

Paediatric

Cerebral palsy can be detected before six months. The most widely practised therapy for it is recommended against.

19 min readLast reviewed

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Learn by subject

36 subjects in four collections

Every subject of the physiotherapy degree, grouped the way the subjects build on one another. 153 learning resources are published so far.

Foundation sciences8 subjects
Physiotherapy sciences13 subjects
Clinical sciences5 subjects
Professional practice10 subjects

All subjects and their syllabus

Clinical tools

Measure, reason, treat and assess

The clinical library and the practical-skills pages, with how many of each are published.

Guided collections

Read in sequence

Short reading paths through pages that are already published. Nothing to sign up for and nothing tracked.

Review dates

Recently reviewed

Dates come from the review record printed on each page. Subject chapters that close with the line “Reviewed by the Physiotherapist India Team” carry no dates, so they are not listed. None of these is past its review date on 15 Oct 2026.

TypePageReviewedNext review dueStatus
Learn topic Vital Signs and Exercise Monitoring Current
Learn topic Range of Motion and Stretching Current
Learn topic Motor Learning Current
Learn topic Exercise Dose: Volume, Frequency and Intensity Current
Learn topic The Gait Cycle Current
Student resource Clinical Placement Current
Assessment skill Observational Gait Analysis Current
Student resource Careers and Pathways Current

Editorial standards

How pages are written and checked

Clinical guides name their author, are reviewed by the Physiotherapist India reviewer team, state how strong the evidence is — and link to the primary sources so you can read them yourself.

Clinical content is written by named clinicians of the Physiotherapist India Team and reviewed by the Physiotherapist India reviewer team, with Dr Dharam Pandey as Chief Editor. No one reviews their own work.

This is a personal professional platform: it is not published by, endorsed by, or affiliated with Manipal Hospitals.

Editorial and review policy Authors, contributors and reviewers

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  • A named author

    With stated qualifications and named affiliation. The Physiotherapist India Team does not publish anonymous clinical content.

  • Independent review

    Clinical guides are reviewed by the Physiotherapist India reviewer team — never by their own author. Study resources are reviewed by the Physiotherapist India Team. Pages still awaiting review say so.

  • An evidence grade

    How strong the evidence actually is, using GRADE — including when it is weak.

  • Review dates

    When it was last reviewed and when the next review is due. Overdue pages say so.

  • Working citations

    Claims referenced to primary literature, with live DOI or PubMed links.

What the Physiotherapist India Team will not do

  • No paid placements, sponsored posts or paid links in clinical content.
  • No superlatives — no "best", "leading" or "number one" about any provider.
  • No treatment claims the cited evidence does not support.
  • No individual clinical advice through this website.
  • No patient testimonials, star ratings or promotional claims.
  • No page published on AI-generated content alone — clinical claims are checked against their sources by the Physiotherapist India Team.