Conducting Professional advocacy programs. Conducting professional awareness programs for medical staff. Conducting continuing education trainings Collecting physiotherapist list in the coun... Read more

AAPT works towards the development of national health by: representing the physiotherapy profession nationally and internationally promoting high standards of physiotherapy education, practi... Read more

AAPT’s vision is to be a leading association in enhancing and promoting of physiotherapy profession in Afghanistan and enhancing welfare of its members and deliverance of quality physiothera... Read more

In the name of God, the merciful and beneficent

Afghan Association for Physical Therapy

ARTICLES

Preface

In the name of the Almighty Lord who made the entire creation in all its greatness, and gave the earth for man to live on.

Thanks be to God, who is ancient and aware of all circumstances – if He granted pain, he also taught us the way of cure.

Oh God!  You, who are all powerful, make us able to support those who are disabled, to give them spiritual and physical strength.

Introduction

War has lasted more than 25 years in Afghanistan, and the country therefore possesses a great number of disabled people who would benefit from physiotherapy services. These benefits are still being perceived by the country or its society. Physiotherapy educational centers are being strengthened and developed, but no research centers yet exist in the country. It should be understood that serving Afghanistan’s disabled people should be considered a service owed to our dear Afghanistan, as a payment of the Islamic, human and national debt. Service to these people is a form of worship.

Apart from the disabled, there are numerous others who would benefit from physiotherapy services in Afghanistan, who suffer consequences of all the years of war, and an still-developing health-care structure. Physiotherapy has much to offer the health-care system, in hospitals, clinics and community based work. (more…)

 In 2007 the Association became a member of the World Confederation of Physical Therapy (WCPT), whereby AAPT now strives to follow international standards in the aim of supporting the physic... Read more

Physical Therapy has its roots in Afghanistan in the early 1980′s, through the establishment of the Physical Therapy Institute (PTI), and from its start to the present, the physical therapy... Read more