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Physical Therapist refers to a person who typically works in a sports medicine or hospital clinic to provide acute and long-term care for a variety of sport and work–related injuries. Physical Therapists design and monitor rehabilitation programs.

Physical Therapists refer to trained and licensed individuals who help people with muscle, nerve, joint, or bone diseases to overcome their disabilities as much as possible.

Physical therapy or PT refers to a rehabilitation specialty that focuses on improving motor control and physical functioning. Physical therapy is sesigned to restore or improve strength and movement in people whose mobility has been impaired by disease and injury.

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Physical-attractiveness stereotype is the presumption that physically attractive people possess other socially desirable traits as well, one person can be beautiful and also kind.

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Physicalism refers to a belief growing out of logical positivism that all sciences should share common assumptions, principles, and methodologies and should model themselves after physics.

Physically active play refers to moderate to vigorous play activities such as running, jumping, climbing, play fighting, or game playing that raise a child’s metabolic rate far above resting levels.

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Physician-assisted suicide is defined as the administration of a lethal dose of some medication by a physician or arranging for a terminally ill patient to administer his or her own lethal dose of medication using a suicide machine. It is Euthanasia that involves a Physician who supplies the actual drug although not actually administering it himself or herself. Moreover, Physician-assisted suicide is defined as a form of assisted suicide in which it is a physician who intentionally provides the assistance that a person needs and uses to end his or her life

Physicians' assistants refer to graduates of 2-year programs who perform routine health care functions, teach patients about their treatment regimens, and record medical information and give whatever assistance the Physician needs.