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Exercise Therapy is a course intrinsically covered in the academic routine of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences. It is required in a number of places like physical rehabilitation centres, clinics for physiotherapy and training programs. It has been found to be highly useful for patients suffering from osteoporosis, arthritis, asthma, diabetes and chronic cardiac problems. The syllabus for this exceptionally non-conventional course lays down the names and descriptions of the equipments that are used in the therapy sessions, techniques of conducting the exercises along with the functions each exercise movement serves, systems of injury rehabilitation, correct exercise forms and movements for healing of a particular injury, better physical performance and fitness, muscular training, increased cardiovascular endurance, greater flexibility of body parts, proactive mental functioning and improved performance skills. The syllabus mainly dishes out the correct techniques of exercise, historical backgrounds of the forms, their advantages and shortcomings and long term clinical implications.