Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation

Hello dear students, I am Associate Professor Asuman Saltan. I'm a physiotherapist. I am the Head of the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation in the Faculty of Health Sciences, at Yalova University. After 4 years of undergraduate education, we give our graduates the title of physiotherapist. In our department, after training in the field of basic science in the first semester, evaluation and skills trainings are given in our 2nd semester. First, let's define what physiotherapy is. A physiotherapist is a health professional who is involved in all health-related and disease-causing problems in all cases with functional and movement disorders. Therefore, under the umbrella of a science, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation can create treatment programs for individuals who need preventive treatment for loss of function and movement. We can create a treatment program and perform treatment by applying our own assessment and measurement methods. There are many application areas in our department. We have a lot of practical courses. Therefore, after the basic education in the first semester, for the second semester we have skills training, skills basic training laboratory, electrophysical agents, healthy life laboratory, manual therapy, and therapeutic exercise approach laboratories. At the end of our 2nd year, we have summer internship applications. This is our 1st summer internship. We also have summer internship applications at the end of 3rd year. Overall, it will be a dynamic period. We will produce articles, scientific studies and projects. We will have a good time during your studies in here. As a department, we have ties with national and international organizations. One of them is Wheelchair Basketball and we work as physiotherapists in this sport. Together with our students, we will take up our duties in places where this sport is held at both national and international levels. We will provide support both for the injuries and the improvement of the athletes. After graduation, our students will be able to work in hospital departments such as neurology and orthopedics. They can also work in nursing homes. As I said, we can take part in all areas related to health. They have the option to work in wellness centers. The main reason for choosing the physiotherapy department should be considered as a service to the people. Since we work in the field of health, our relations with people must be strong. Of course, we will develop this in 4 years by practicing together. We will improve our communication. We will take a solution-based approach. We will not forget that our focus is to protect the health of people, to help and support the healing process. Yalova University is a developing university. It adds new features, new missions and visions to itself every year. One of the advantages of our department is that we are a thermal region, and we are a city located by the sea. We are very close to a big city such as Istanbul. We believe that our communication with state institutions will widen the field of practice for physiotherapy students who will come here and have a more dynamic and productive education process. I wish success to the candidates who will prefer our university and department.