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Physical therapy addresses the illnesses or injuries that limit a person's abilities to move and perform functional activities in their daily lives. [3] PTs use an individual's history and physical examination to arrive at a diagnosis and establish a management plan and, when necessary, incorporate the results of laboratory and imaging studies like X-rays, CT-scan, or MRI findings.
Physical therapy: Physicians like Hippocrates and later Galen are believed to have been the first practitioners of physical therapy, advocating massage, manual therapy techniques and hydrotherapy to treat people in 460 BC. Physiology: The study of human physiology as a medical field originates in classical Greece, at the time of Hippocrates.
The Gymnasticon emerged from the newly developed science of orthopedics, originated by Nicolas Andry in 1741. [2] It was an early example of a series of new technologies in gymnastics that would lead to the development of physical therapy in the nineteenth century.
It was the foundation of the Medical Gymnastics, the original Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy, developed for over 100 years in Sweden (starting 1813). [79] The new medical therapy created in Sweden was originally called Rörelselära , and later in 1854 translated to the new and invented international word "Kinesiology". The Kinesiology ...
The Feldenkrais Method (FM) is a type of movement therapy devised by Israeli Moshé Feldenkrais (1904–1984) during the mid-20th century. The method is claimed to reorganize connections between the brain and body and so improve body movement and psychological state. [1] [2] There is no conclusive evidence for any medical benefits of the therapy.
Frank H. Krusen was a pioneer of physical medicine, which emphasized the use of physical agents, such as hydrotherapy and hyperbaric oxygen, at Temple University and then at Mayo Clinic and it was he that coined the term 'physiatry' in 1938. Rehabilitation medicine gained prominence during both World Wars in the treatment of injured soldiers ...
In 1955, Schroth and her family moved to West Germany, where she founded her second therapy institute in Sobernheim to treat both German and international patients. Her daughter, Christa, eventually became the institute’s director and worked there until she retired in 1995. The institute helped about 150 people at a time with scoliosis or ...
The ThighMaster was invented in Sweden by then-physical medicine intern (later "Dr.") Anne Marie Bennstrom (Prescott) as the "V-Bar" physical therapy device. [9] It later received US design patent number 343882S as "physical exerciser."