Office: 2248 EACPHS; 313-577-1432
Director: Kristina Reid, Physical Therapy Program
https://cphs.wayne.edu/physical-therapy/

Physical Therapists provide services to patients/clients who have impairments of body function and structure, activity limitations, and participation restrictions or changes in physical function and health status resulting from injury, disease, or other causes. Physical therapists collaborate with a variety of professionals, address risk factors to health, are leaders and providers in the areas of prevention and promoting health, wellness and fitness, serve as educators, consultants, administrators, and advocates, utilize critical inquiry skills and direct and supervise the provision of physical therapy services. Physical Therapy services include examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, and intervention primarily for individuals with musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiopulmonary, and/or integumentary conditions. Physical therapists practice in a wide variety of settings including hospitals, outpatient clinics, private practice, schools, academia, home care, industrial clinics, sports clinics, rehabilitation centers, and health and wellness programs. Students interested in the physical therapy profession should also visit the American Physical Therapy Association website.

The physical therapy curriculum at Wayne State University is a professional degree program leading to the Doctor of Physical Therapy degree. The entire program involves a pre-professional component: ninety credits of undergraduate course work; a first year of physical therapy courses taken under qualified graduate status; and the final two and one half years of Physical Therapy courses taken under regular graduate status. Only those portions of the program that may be completed during the first four years of what is usually construed as an undergraduate matriculation are presented in this Bulletin. The balance of the program is presented in the Graduate Bulletin.

The program of study in physical therapy is accredited by the:

Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education for the Doctor of Physical Therapy program
Attn: Accreditation Dept.
1111 N. Fairfax St.
Alexandria VA 22314-1488
(http://www.apta.org)

Graduates who receive a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree are eligible to take the national physical therapy licensure examination and the Canadian licensure examination and for active membership in the American Physical Therapy Association.

PLEASE NOTE: Student may NOT apply to or earn the Bachelor of Health Science with a concentration in physical therapy degree retroactively or after a subsequent higher level degree has been conferred.

Course Requirements

Honors Designation

Students enrolled in the Irvin D. Reid Honors College while completing the pre-concentration requirements will be eligible for the Honors distinction with the B.H.S. degree if all requirements set forth by the Honors College have been met.