Physiotherapy focuses on physiotherapeutic diagnostics and treatment as well as physiotherapy in the context of healthcare. Our research priorities are physical activity, supply and implementation research, analysis in our movement laboratory, new technologies as well as research and educational research. The team consists of specialists in Physiotherapy, Movement Science and Sports Science, Psychology and Social Science, who have broad experience in practice and research at home and abroad to the benefit of our students in Physiotherapy and Movement Science, who are involved in projects while working on their master thesis or as student apprentices in a research team. Our clients and partners include public institutions, hospitals, practices and companies. We maintain cooperation with various ZHAW institutes, other Swiss universities of applied sciences as well as national and international universities.

Key research subjects

• New technologies
  Development, implementation and evaluation of new technologies in physiotherapy
• Interventions
  Evaluation and implementation of treatment concepts in the physiotherapeutic context
• Assessment
  Evaluation and implementation of standardised clinical test instruments
• Healthcare provision
  Development and evaluation of care models in the physiotherapeutic context

Clients and research partners

We develop offers that are tailored to the needs and questions of our practice partners and clients. For this purpose, a wide range of quantitative and qualitative research methods and other tools are available to us.

We offer a modern infrastructure and a wide range of competencies, supplemented by interdisciplinary networking within ZHAW as well as by our close cooperation with international experts in various subject areas.

In interdisciplinary projects we work together with the Occupational Therapy, Nursing, Physiotherapy and Health Sciences research groups at the School of Health Sciences.