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Physiotherapy

Current registrations 12,623division 86: 72,803
Starters, 12 months 7495.9 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 40.3 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 36928 employers · latest accounts
Median age 8.2 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 63.3%7,993 of 12,623 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 86951 · financial year 2025 · 2,265 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
50.5%
division 62.1% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€19,907
division €63,056 · Belgium €16,520
Median equity
€45,623
division €144,814 · Belgium €98,421
Loss-making
12.1%
division 8.6% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
5.4%
division 3.8% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
36.8%
division 32.6% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
2.07
division 2.72 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
35.3%
financial year 2024, 1,935 filings · division 35.9% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
1.6%
of 2,318 companies with annual accounts · division 3.1% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 41.2%42.7%43.4%47.2%50.8%50.5%
Median net result €9,592€14,866€13,508€16,559€18,738€19,907

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
13
0.10% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
11
0.9 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
30-10-2026 FEMINATAL
BE 0776.628.520
09-10-2026 Samen Aan Zet
BE 0671.837.638
12-08-2026 Dormal, Sandra
BE 0815.556.796 · sole trader
24-03-2026 TRAN THI
BE 0650.928.693
13-12-2024 Degotte, Jean
BE 0815.375.466 · sole trader
28-03-2024 Advanced Health C
BE 0882.002.687
31-01-2024 Soumagne, Joseph
BE 0827.311.812 · sole trader
03-01-2024 Brugmans, André
BE 0815.493.252 · sole trader

Every bankruptcy in division 86, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 4,217 of 12,623 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 3,313 · 78.6%
  • Wallonia 760 · 18.0%
  • Brussels 142 · 3.4%
  • Abroad 2 · 0.0%
fewer moremax 905

Largest employers

NACE 86951 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 PULDERBOS REVALIDATIECENTRUM VOOR KINDEREN EN JONGERENZandhoven 197 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 Centrum voor Ambulante Revalidatie OverleieKortrijk 69.6 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 ZeplinBierbeek 28.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 Centres pour Handicapes SensorielsUccle 23.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 P4INVESTNandrin 15.4 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 148 companies
  • 330 Health institutions and services 78
  • 330.04 Health institutions and services 44
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 15
  • 314 Hairdressing and beauty care 6
  • 302 Hotels and catering 4
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 2
  • 201 Independent retail 2
  • 336 Liberal professions 2
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  • 224 White-collar workers in non-ferrous metals 1
  • 227 Audiovisual sector 1
  • 313 Pharmacies and pricing offices 1
  • 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 1
  • 330.01 Health institutions and services 1
  • 340 Orthopaedic technologies 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 86: Human health

Related activities

23 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Nutrition and dietetics services86995 10,171 206 10 10,077
Nursing and midwifery86940 5,955 540 8 4,628
Psychology services86931 5,501 371 1 2,137
Other human health activities86999 1,084 516 0 740
Non-conventional therapeutic services86961 981 525 0 -
Podiatry and foot care86994 970 384 1 4
Show all 23 activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Medical imaging and medical laboratories86910 695 24 2 5,611
Human health activities86939 670 376 0 26
Human health activities86996 421 99 0 33
Human health activities86997 318 192 0 -
Human health activities86932 268 87 0 -
Human health activities86920 255 13 4 1,214
Human health activities86959 114 8 0 686
Human health activities86991 89 52 0 -
Human health activities86952 80 33 0 -
Human health activities86933 74 4 0 1,352
Human health activities86963 74 16 0 -
Human health activities86970 36 15 0 -
Human health activities86965 29 8 0 -
Human health activities86962 22 4 0 5
Human health activities86992 14 3 0 84
Human health activities86993 13 7 0 -
Human health activities86964 5 4 0 -

Bankruptcies per year in division 86

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies3738381381979984133133125134104
Jobs lost155112101224345124147251436214240196

2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 86

1,681 employers
Median
€58,900
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€45,000 to €75,500
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
60 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €52,000 €42,300 to €65,700 1,189
10 to 49 FTE €77,700 €61,500 to €87,700 343
50 to 249 FTE €81,300 €69,700 to €90,000 68
250 FTE or more €78,800 €72,300 to €83,100 81

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 86
Number
51
Half have run longer than
23 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
29%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,562 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 6 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.

Outcome by court and division

20 of the 34,006 companies in NACE division 86 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (8), Luxembourg (3) and United States (3). Together they employ 1,838 of the division's 138,631 FTE: 1.3%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €3.07bn awarded 4,414 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Persoonsvolgend budget voor personen met een handicap (PVB)
  • Federal transfers 160.2m amount as published 105 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Subsidie ziekenwagendiensten
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €219.1m paid 170 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
  • EU budget €44.4m attributed share 34 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Digital Europe Programme
  • EU research €32.1m EU contribution 29 recipients · 2009 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Physiotherapy

Balance sheet and result. Return on equity of 36.8% is above Belgium's 15.9%. 5.4% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. 12.1% of the annual accounts close with a loss, against 26.7% in Belgium.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. 66.6% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 5.9 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 60% of the 87 NACE divisions. Flanders holds 78.6% of the seats, against 64.7% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 333 of the 369 FTE: 90.4%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 41.2% in financial year 2020 to 50.5% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €9,592 in financial year 2020 to €19,907 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 06-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 86951 exists.

The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,581 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 698,987 registrations publish no activity.

Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.