Physical therapists are experts who assesses and treat issues of human body basically by physical methods.

They address the complaints or disorders that restrict the person's ability to move and complete various functional

activities in their daily routine.

Objective: The goal of the investigation is to check physical therapy facilities in public and private health care

centers in Lahore.

Methodology: Cross-sectional survey was conducted across different private and public health care centers of

Lahore. A self – designed questionnaire was made. The sample size of this study was 150. Convenient sampling

technique has been used in this study for collection of data. Inspection of data was done by utilizing SPSS version

20, tables and charts were made.

Results: Results suggested that equipment which were frequently available in most setups were ice packs,

mobilization belt, and Thera bands (having the availability in more than 70% setups).The Electrotherapy

modalities which were frequently available in most setups were heating pad, TENS, EMS, and massager (having

the availability in more than 70% setups) 80.7% (n=88) setups having 1-5 Physical Therapists, 12.8 %( n=14)

setups having 6-10 Physical Therapists and 6.4% (n=7) setups having 11 or above Physical Therapists. 64.2%

(n=70) setups having the average of 1-10 Patients, 19.3 %( n=21) setups having the average of 11-20 Patients

and 16.5% (n=18) setups having the average of 21 or above Patients. 13.76% (n=5) were Public/private teaching

hospitals, 83.49 %( n=91) were hospital/polyclinics and 2.752% (n=3) were university physiotherapy centers.

Conclusion: This study showed most frequently available equipment in most setups were ice packs, mobilization

belt, and Thera bands and least available equipment were spirometer, CP chair, standing frame, parallel bars or

wall bars and goniometer. Most frequently available Electrotherapy modalities in most setups were heating pad,

TENS, EMS, and massager and least available electrotherapy modalities were shockwave, paraffin wax bath and

Microwave diathermy. Mostly there were 1- 5 physical therapists in a health care center, daily average of patients

were in between 1-10 and type of health care center from where data is collected was hospital/polyclinics.

Key words: Physical therapy, facilities, electrotherapy, exercise equipment, health care centers, physiotherapist–

patient ratio.