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Physical therapy is a non-pharmaceutical therapeutic mean based on the theories of modernized western medicine. It makes use of human body's physiological responses upon physical stimulus to achieve therapeutic purpose. The therapeutic effect can be achieved by using exercise training, manual therapy, electric power, hydraulic force, cold, warmth, light or magnetism. Physical therapists improve the quality of lives of patients by pain relief, restoration of mobility, cardiopulmonary function and daily functional capacity.