Physiotherapy plays an important role in health-care, be it preventive, curative or rehabilitative. It has evolved as the supplementary medicine for last 6 decades and conquering newer horizons every day.  K .J. Somaiya College of Physiotherapy has plans to start graduate programme from  coming academic year.

To serve the people to maintain Health, improve   fitness,& rehabilitate to integrate in the community as an efficient member of the society.

The Physiotherapy Course formulated by

Experience has taught us that most people search to be a part of something bigger than them whether it is a religion or health sports or recreation

The Maharashtra University Health

. People yearn to work something bigger. Keeping in line with this motto we aim to build our academics and research towards excellence.

Sciences  lays emphasis on the current trend of evidence based  practice and is applied  to all areas of Physiotherapy viz. neuromuscular, cardiopulmonary, musculo-skeletal and speciality fields like sports medicines, health and fitness, antenatal/ post natal classes among others.

K.J. Somaiya College of Physiotherapy is located in the same campus as The Medical College & Hospital on a 22-acre land in   Sion, central Mumbai. Presently the Institution offers undergraduate education. The course is affiliated to Maharashtra University of Health Sciences,Nashik. The college is also affiliated to the Indian Association of physiotherapists which is  a member organization of World Confederation of Physiotherapists.

The College provides bachelors’ programme  of 4½ years with   an internship  of 6 months.  Academic year starts from August every year.

 The Course- Bachelors’ in Physiotherapy for 4½ years with an internship of 6 months. Every year 30 students  are  admitted 

 Masters’ .Programme  is being planned from the  academic year of 2007.

1. Research with an emphasis on wound healing using various Physiotherapy modalities.

2. Pediatrics and adult Neuro-rehabilitation unit

3. A well equipped fitness centre including electronic treadmill, ergo-cycle, weights and         trained personnel not only for supervision but also to advice patients for diet and nutrition. 

4. Gait Analysis laboratory for a complete computerized biomechanical analysis of the human body during actives like walking, running, bowling, jogging, jumping etc. The same is also to aid in the training in sports medicine, for early return to specific sports activity.

K.J.Somaiya Trust was founded in 1959 by late Padmabhushan K.J.Somaiya. It established   Somaiya Vidya-Vihar (Centre of Knowledge) in 1959, which, over years came to encompass the entire educational spectrum from kindergarten to postgraduate education.  It comprises  of  30 institutions with over 25,000 students imparting education in humanities, Engineering, Management, Bharatiya Sanskriti, Buddhist studies etc.  

K.J.Somaiya Medical College and Hospital was established in 1991 as a centre of life Sciences, inspired by the guiding Principles of Bhagavat Geeta ‘to remove the suffering of all beings afflicted by pain.’ This pain in the literary sense is best tackled by the Physiotherapists in a variety of conditions.

As a result, there is a great need for Physiotherapists. Understanding this, Somaiya Medical Trust made an application to the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences to grant affiliation of the course in Physiotherapy with an intake capacity of 30 students. The affiliation was granted from the academic year 2002-2003. The College commenced its Bachelors’programme in the same year.

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