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Background: Humans spend a third of their life sleeping. Quality sleep is critical for proper functioning of the body. Busy lifestyle, more usage of technology, bad food habits, stress leads to disturbed sleep. Insomnia is one of the most common sleep disorders, in which a person is having difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep or having unrefreshing sleep despite having ample opportunity to sleep. Yoga, meditation, exercise is beneficial for insomnia in which, exercise plays an important role in improving sleep quality. Need of the study is to develop subject specific structural exercise protocol according to the severity of insomnia. Aim: To evaluate the effect of physiotherapy intervention on sleep quality in subjects with Subthreshold Insomnia. Materials and Methods: Total 30 subjects (25-65 years both male and female) having insomnia Severity Index score between 8 to 14 participated in the study. After taking consent, Sleep quality was measured by (PSQI) and Sleep diary was explained to the participants. Sleep hygiene education was given, and moderate intensity interval exercises were given for 4 days/week for 4 weeks. 1st session was supervised and rest of all were self-performed at home in the evening after 5 pm. Follow-up was taken at the end of 3rd week and 4th week. Results: Statistical analysis was done using SPSS version 21. Intragroup analysis was done using Repeated measures ANOVA test which shows significant improvement that is p vale < 0.05 for ISI & PSQI. Conclusion: Exercise intensity, frequency and duration remains key factor for designing physical and functional exercises to have impact on subthreshold insomnia. Severity based exercise program should be taken into consideration and opens a new practice for Physiotherapists in people with insomnia.