physical therapist vs therapist

physical therapist and therapist both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
physical therapist	Yes	No	No	No
therapist	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, therapist is a hypernym of physical therapist; that is, therapist is a word with a broader meaning than physical therapist:

physical therapist: therapist who treats injury or dysfunction with exercises and other physical treatments of the disorder
therapist: a person skilled in a particular type of therapy

Other hypernyms of physical therapist include healer.

physical therapist (noun)	therapist (noun)
therapist who treats injury or dysfunction with exercises and other physical treatments of the disorder	a person skilled in a particular type of therapy