Traditionally, Described as medical treatment with the use of physical modalities with movement and exercise to treat, rehabilitate and prevent injury and illness. Physical therapy attempts to address the illnesses, or injuries that limit a person's abilities to move and perform functional activities in their daily lives.

Physiotherapy practice is characterised by reflective behaviour and systematic clinical reasoning, both contributing to and underpinning a problem-solving approach to patient-centred care. Combined with  in-depth knowledge of how the body works with specialized hands-on clinical skills to assess, diagnose, and treat symptoms of illness, injury and disability, a physio remediates impairments and promotes mobility, function, and quality of life through examination, diagnosis, prognosis, and physical intervention based on the  principles of  evidence / research based practice, and effective clinical reasoning skills.

A physiotherapist ensures that one should meet their health goals of injury recovery, pain reduction, health promotion, or work / sport reintegration with the best use of manual skills, mobilization, exercises, task oriented approach and the use of technically advanced electrical modalities specific to the problem of the Patient.