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Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences — PhD reading list.

The advanced references a doctoral scholar in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences works from, and what each one is for.

7Titles listed
4Worked right through
3–6 yrsProgramme length
12Coursework credits
The subject

Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences as a research subject

ScopeMusculoskeletal, neurological and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, exercise prescription and motor control, gait and movement analysis, sports injury prevention, and outcome-measure development and validation.
Who can registerMPT in any speciality, BPT with a relevant master's, MSc Occupational Therapy, MSc Sports and Exercise Science.
How you get inEither the fellowship route — CSIR-UGC NET, ICMR, DBT-BET, DST-INSPIRE — straight to interview, or the institute entrance test, half research methodology and half physiotherapy and rehabilitation sciences.
CourseworkOne semester, at least 12 credits: research methodology and biostatistics, plus Research and Publication Ethics, before the research phase proper begins.
How this list is used

Reading for Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences

Physiotherapy PhD reading pairs a clinical reference in the thesis area with a research-methods text used for the whole degree. Kisner and Colby and Magee are the two books almost every scholar owns — Kisner for exercise prescription and progression, Magee for the tests, measures and psychometric properties that a measurement chapter has to report. O'Sullivan and Shumway-Cook carry the neurological rehabilitation and motor-control theory that neuro-stream theses are built on, and Umphred is added for condition-specific management detail. Portney is the methods and statistics text the discipline actually uses — reliability, validity, minimal detectable change and clinical trial design come from there, and Indian examiners will ask for those numbers explicitly.

Titles are tagged core reading — the ones scholars work right through — or reference, the ones they look things up in. Editions are given where the current edition is what you want to buy.

  1. Therapeutic Exercise: Foundations and Techniquescore readingCarolyn Kisner, Lynn Allen Colby, John Borstad · F.A. Davis · 8th edition (2022)Exercise prescription, progression and regional protocols — the source for the intervention description in a thesis.
  2. Orthopedic Physical Assessmentcore readingDavid J. Magee, Robert C. Manske · Elsevier · 7th edition (2021)Special tests with sensitivity, specificity and reliability data — cited whenever an outcome measure has to be justified.
  3. Physical Rehabilitationcore readingSusan B. O'Sullivan, Thomas J. Schmitz, George D. Fulk · F.A. Davis · 7th edition (2019)Examination and management by condition, especially neurological — the standard reference for rehabilitation protocol design.
  4. Motor Control: Translating Research into Clinical Practicecore readingAnne Shumway-Cook, Marjorie H. Woollacott, Jaya Rachwani, Victor Santamaria · Wolters Kluwer · 6th edition (2023)The theoretical framework for balance, gait and motor-learning theses — the source examiners expect for systems theory.
  5. Umphred's Neurological RehabilitationreferenceRolando T. Lazaro, Sandra G. Reina-Guerra, Myla Quiben (eds.) · Elsevier · 7th edition (2020)Condition-specific neurological management detail used when designing an intervention for a defined patient group.
  6. Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physical Therapy: Evidence to PracticereferenceDonna Frownfelter, Elizabeth Dean · Elsevier · 6th edition (2022)The cardiorespiratory reference for exercise testing, prescription and airway clearance in cardiopulmonary theses.
  7. Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Evidence-Based PracticereferenceLeslie G. Portney · F.A. Davis · 4th edition (2020)The discipline's methods text — reliability, validity, MDC and MCID, sample size and trial design, used throughout the degree.

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The two lists every scholar also needs

Whatever the subject, the coursework semester is examined on research methodology, biostatistics and publication ethics, and the bench work runs on a handful of protocol volumes. Both lists are kept separately so you are not buying them twice.

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PhD Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences — questions

Which books does a PhD scholar in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences read?

The 7 titles on this page, of which 4 are worked right through and the rest are kept as references. Most scholars own two or three and use the department copy for the others.

Who can register for a PhD in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences?

MPT in any speciality, BPT with a relevant master's, MSc Occupational Therapy, MSc Sports and Exercise Science.

What does a PhD in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences cover?

Musculoskeletal, neurological and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, exercise prescription and motor control, gait and movement analysis, sports injury prevention, and outcome-measure development and validation.

Is the coursework examined?

Yes. One semester of at least 12 credits, assessed before the research phase begins, covering research methodology, biostatistics and Research and Publication Ethics.

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