This graduate program aims to prepare high qualified human resources in the Rehabilitation and Functional Performance areas, based on academic-scientific and ethical principles, capable for knowledge dissemination providing research development in these areas. It is a program with academic and multidisciplinary profile. 

Its structure involves four research lines, which comprises:

1) processes related to biomechanical analysis of human movement and its impact on interventions;

2) cardiovascular, respiratory and metabolic alterations caused by chronic degenerative diseases and the adaptive mechanisms induced by physical therapy interventions;

3) the development and analysis of equipment and physical therapy techniques applied to the musculoskeletal and neuromuscular systems commonly used in clinical practice or potentially viable;

4) the study of biological structures responsible for motion and motor control and their interaction with therapeutic agents in the rehabilitation process. 

The disciplines are offered to provide the necessary theoretical support, presented by sub-themes related to the research lines, as well as the methodological and ethical issues.