ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL THERAPY

The Romanian Journal of Physical Therapy is the journal of the Theoretical, Medical and Physical Therapy Subject-Matters Department of the Physical Education and Sports Faculty from the University of Oradea.

The journal has a multi-domain character, the articles published in it being addressed to specialists involved in the domain of medical rehabilitation (physicians, physical therapists, social assistants, psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists), to students, master students and Ph.D. candidates. The approached subjects are various, covering the entire curricular area and all the specialists’ competence domains.

This being the only specialty journal in the country, the persons eligible to publish in it are both members of the teaching staff involved in the formation of future specialists and persons involved in practice, personalities involved in the research process in physical therapy.

In what the contents are concerned, the journal contains: editorials, articles for orientation, clinical and experimental studies, book reviews, scientific events, inventions and innovations.

The journal is governed by the Romanian Federation of Physical Therapy Associations and it is edited by the Publishing House of the University of Oradea .

The main purpose of the journal is to give examples of good practice and to valorize the results of research activities, as well as to provide a permanent source of information which should contribute to the continuous professional formation of specialists in the domain.

Objectives:

• The journal should represent a means to enrich the specialists’ knowledge by presenting the most recent studies and researches in the domain.
• The value of the magazine should be increased by respecting the criteria necessary to promote the journal in a superior category, contributing thus to the process of promotion in Academic career.
• We also wish to increase the quality standard of the journal in order to obtain international recognition by indexing the journal in the international ISI data base or in prestigious international catalogues.
• Another objective is to promote abroad the work of specialists in the domain both from the Academic environment and from the domain of profession practice by means of obtaining international exchanges with journals from the same domain.

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