Physiotherapist Resume Sample

Physiotherapist resume format

This Physiotherapist sample runs 7 sections in one column, reverse-chronological, with the experience above the education. In order:

• Header — name, job title, city, email, phone and profile links
• Summary — 32 words, no heading beyond the label
• Experience — 2 roles, 7 bullets, newest first
• Skills — 12 listed under 3 headings
• Education — 2 qualifications
• Certifications — 2
• Languages — English, Kannada, Tulu and Hindi

Nothing is centred, nothing is in a table, and no section is a graphic. Everything a parser needs to read is text in the order a human reads it.

The summary this Physiotherapist resume opens with

32 words, and it opens on "Physiotherapist with 6 years in…" rather than on what the candidate is looking for.

Physiotherapist with 6 years in musculoskeletal and sports rehabilitation, currently running post-operative orthopaedic caseloads. Trained in manual therapy and dry needling, and careful about discharging on function rather than on session count.

It is written to be read in one pass: what this Physiotherapist does, where, and what they are measured on. Nothing in it repeats a bullet further down verbatim.

What the experience section looks like on a Physiotherapist resume

2 roles, 7 bullets, 5 of them carrying a number.

• Senior Physiotherapist at KMC Hospital — Mar 2022 to Present, 5 bullets
• Physiotherapist at Sparsh Physiotherapy Clinic — Jul 2019 to Feb 2022, 2 bullets

The line that does the most work here:

Run post-ACL reconstruction rehab from day one to return-to-sport, averaging 26 weeks with objective hop-test criteria at discharge.

Skills a Physiotherapist resume lists

12 skills, split into 3 groups (Clinical, Assessment and Modalities) rather than one long comma-separated line.

Clinical

Manual therapy · Exercise prescription · Post-operative orthopaedic rehab · Sports injury management · Dry needling

Assessment

Movement analysis · Outcome measures (LEFS, DASH, NPRS) · Return-to-sport testing

Modalities

Ultrasound therapy · TENS · Kinesio taping · Hydrotherapy

Education and certifications on a Physiotherapist resume

2 qualifications, listed after the experience because the experience is what is being hired.

• MPT in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy · Manipal College of Health Professions · 2017–2019 · First class
• BPT in Physiotherapy · Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences · 2012–2017 · First class

Certifications, named in full with the year:

• Certified Dry Needling Practitioner (2021)
• Mulligan Concept Level A and B

ATS keywords in this Physiotherapist sample

An applicant tracking system matches text. These 16 terms are the ones this document actually contains — its skills, the titles it has held, the certifications it names — not a wishlist bolted onto the bottom of the page.

• Manual therapy
• Exercise prescription
• Post-operative orthopaedic rehab
• Sports injury management
• Dry needling
• Movement analysis
• Outcome measures
• Return-to-sport testing
• Ultrasound therapy
• TENS
• Kinesio taping
• Hydrotherapy
• Senior Physiotherapist
• Physiotherapist
• Certified Dry Needling Practitioner
• Mulligan Concept Level A and B

Check which of these your own resume is missing →

What goes wrong on Physiotherapist resumes

Each of these is what the sample above avoids, with the sample's own line as the evidence:

• Bullets that list duties instead of results. 5 of the 7 here carry a number: "Supervise 3 intern physiotherapists on clinical placement."
• An objective that runs five lines and says nothing. This summary is 32 words.
• One undifferentiated list of every tool ever opened. This sample separates Clinical, Assessment and Modalities.
• Undated roles, which read as a gap being hidden. Every role here is dated, Jul 2019 to Present.
• Certifications mentioned inside a paragraph. This one lists them separately, starting with Certified Dry Needling Practitioner (2021).
• A contact line a recruiter has to hunt for. Here it is the first thing on the page, one line under Rohit Shetty: city, email, phone, LinkedIn.

What this Indian Physiotherapist resume leaves out

The whole header is 6 lines — the name Rohit Shetty, the job title Physiotherapist (Musculoskeletal), the city (Mangaluru, India), an email address, a phone number and a LinkedIn link. Six things an Indian resume template will still offer you, none of which are here:

• A photograph. The document opens on the name Rohit Shetty and the title Physiotherapist (Musculoskeletal), which is what a shortlisting screen reads.
• Date of birth, age, marital status and gender. None of them predict whether a Physiotherapist can do the work.
• Father's or husband's name, which belongs on a form, not on a resume.
• A full postal address. The city line is "Mangaluru, India" and stops there — recruiters filter on the city.
• Current and expected CTC. It is a negotiation, and it is not a qualification.
• A declaration paragraph with a signature. The document ends on the certifications.

Naukri headline for a Physiotherapist

Naukri shows a resume headline at the top of the profile, and it is the line a recruiter reads before opening anything. Built from this sample — its title, the experience it shows, the skills it leads with — it reads:

Physiotherapist (Musculoskeletal) | 7 yrs | Manual therapy, Exercise prescription, Post-operative orthopaedic rehab, Sports injury managemen

Every term in it appears in the document below, so the profile and the resume answer the same search instead of two different ones.

Fresher or experienced: which version of this Physiotherapist resume you need

This one is written at 7.1 years of experience — Mid-Level, 3-8 yrs.

As a fresher in the same role, invert it: MPT in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, Manipal College of Health Professions moves to the top, internships and coursework carry the middle of the page, and the summary names the skills instead of the scope.

See every mid-level sample (3-8 yrs) →