摘要：Researches conducted by physical therapists are discussed from following three different viewpoints; 1) Necessity for those researches from the standpoint of an expert. 2) The present state of researches (training school for physical therapists, a trend of paper presentation at the Congress of Japanese Physical Association (JPTA), and the relationship between other congress and JPTA. 3) Problems for further discussion concerning researches (establishment of four-year university education, cooperated system with an adjacent branch of learning, distinctiveness of pathoexercise physiology, and view and instructions of paper presentation).
