Student learning
Learn Physiotherapy by Subject
Every subject in the physiotherapy degree, with its syllabus laid out and its topics linked to a single set of learning resources. Choose the subject you are studying and work through it — the same resource serves you whether you are learning it, revising it for an exam or applying it on placement.
How this is organised. Subjects are grouped the way they build on one another: the foundation sciences first, then the physiotherapy sciences that apply them, the clinical sciences that describe what goes wrong, and the professional subjects that surround all of it.
Where a subject already has published resources, they are listed under it. Where it does not, it says so rather than pretending otherwise. Nothing here is written twice — a topic that belongs to several subjects appears under each of them and links to the same resource.
Foundation sciences
Human Anatomy
The structural map every other subject refers back to.
Human Physiology
How the systems work, and what changes when they cannot.
Biochemistry
The chemistry behind energy, metabolism and repair.
Psychology & Sociology
Why people behave as they do when they are unwell.
Pathology & Microbiology
What disease does to tissue, and what causes it.
Pharmacology
The drugs your patients arrive on, and how they change treatment.
Public Health & Health Promotion
Health at the level of populations rather than patients.
Emergency Care & Life Support
What to do in the minutes before anyone else arrives.
Physiotherapy sciences
Fundamentals of Exercise Modalities
The building blocks of every exercise you will ever prescribe.
Exercise Therapy
Movement used deliberately as treatment.
Fundamentals of Electrophysical Agents
The physics behind the machines in every department.
Electrotherapy
What the machines do, and what the evidence says they do.
Biomechanics & Kinesiology
Forces, levers and motion applied to the human body.
Physiotherapy in Medical & Surgical Conditions
Rehabilitation for medical and post-surgical patients.
Musculoskeletal / Orthopedic Physiotherapy
The largest caseload in the profession.
Physical & Functional Diagnosis
How to examine, measure and reach a physiotherapy diagnosis.
Neurological Physiotherapy
Rehabilitation after stroke, injury and progressive disease.
Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy
Breathing, circulation and exercise capacity as treatment targets.
Sports Physiotherapy
Injury, performance and return to play.
Exercise Prescription
Deciding how much, how often and how hard.
Community Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation delivered where people actually live.
Clinical sciences
General Medicine & Pediatrics
The medical conditions you will meet on the ward.
General Surgery
Surgical management, and what it leaves you to rehabilitate.
Orthopedics
Bones, joints and the injuries and operations that involve them.
Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
The nervous system when it is damaged.
Cardiothoracic Diseases & Surgery
Heart and lung disease, and the surgery that treats it.
Professional practice
Research Methodology
How clinical questions are turned into answerable studies.
Biostatistics
Reading the numbers in a paper without being misled by them.
Evidence-Based Practice
Combining evidence, reasoning and the patient in front of you.
Yoga & Systems of Medicine
Traditional systems, and where they meet current practice.
Physiotherapy Ethics
The obligations that come with treating people.
Medico-Legal Aspects
Consent, records, negligence and the law.
Management & Administration
Running a department, a service or a practice.
Healthcare Delivery System
How care is organised and paid for in India.
Communication & Professional Skills
Explaining, listening, and writing it down properly.
Computers & Health Information
Records, data and the tools that handle them.
What you will find inside a subject
Each subject sets out what it teaches and why it matters, then lays out its syllabus unit by unit, with every topic linked to the resource that covers it. Alongside the theory sit the practical skills, the exam preparation, worked clinical cases, and an honest note wherever current evidence has moved away from what is still taught for examinations.
Reviewed by the Physiotherapist India Team.