Official Facebook page for the Radford University Doctor of Physical Therapy program located in Roanoke, Virginia.
Twitter: @Radford_DPT
The Department of Physical Therapy aspires to prepare responsive and engaged professionals who lead by example by providing best practice care. Our vision parallels the APTA’s 2030 vision that physical therapy will be provided by doctors of physical therapy. Physical therapists will be recognized by consumers and other health care professionals as practitioners of choice to whom consumers have direct access for the diagnosis of, interventions for, and prevention of impairments, functional limitations, and disabilities related to movement, function, and health.
Our mission is to develop culturally sensitive autonomous practitioners of physical therapy. These practitioners will serve the physical therapy needs of rural communities, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the region. The development of autonomous practitioners will be facilitated through an engaging and challenging intellectual and psychomotor teaching/ learning environment that is student focused. Research is considered a vital corollary to the teaching/ learning process leading to lifelong learning and the creation of new knowledge to meet current and future healthcare needs of society.
