Chapter 2 Flashcards
When does rehabilitation techniques date back to?
400 B.C.
3 historical figures
1) Hippocrates- “father of medicine” ; first to recommend therapeutic exercises, gave rise to biomedical ethics
2) Aristotle- recommended rubbing massage using oil and water for muscle tiredness
3) Galen- described kinetic principles of human movement
Where did physical therapy originate from?
Europe
Two major events in the U.S history created physical therapy
1) poliomyelitis epidemics
2) negative effects of WWI AND WWII
Reconstructive era
Beginning of physical therapy between 1914 and 1919.
Where the first major outbreak of poliomyelitis happen?
New York State in 1916
Two divisions of medical department of the U.S.
1) division of orthopedic surgery
2) division of physical reconstruction
When was the division of special hospitals and physical reconstruction created and by who?
-created in august 1917
-surgeon general William gorgas
Role of division?
To give solders who were disabled “reconstructive therapy”
Who were reconstruction aides?
-unmarried women between the ages of 25-40
First physical therapists
1) Marguerite Sanderson- first supervisor of reconstruction aides
2) Mary McMillan
Mary McMillan “mother of physical therapy”
-head of program at Walter reed general hospital
-sworn into US army in 1918
-created 1st PT school curriculum at Reeds college
- published Massage and therapeutic exercise in 1921.
Development years:
AWPTA
-American Women’s Physical Therapeutics Association
- created in 1921 by Mary McMillan (first president)
- created to maintain and establish professional and scientific standards for members
First official publication of association
-March 1921
- called P.T. review
1st conference of AWPTA
-happened in Boston in 1922
- changed its name to APA (American physiotherapy association)
When did the name physiotherapists change to physical therapist?
-1940s
Fundamental accomplishment years
1st PT to hold a doctoral degree in anatomy
Catherine worthington
-served as president of association from1940 to 1945
1st war emergency training course of WWII
- summer 1941
- initiated at Walter reed general hospital
-Emma Vogel was director
What were ppl called who graduated from this program now called?
Physiotherapy aides
When did US congress pass the bill in which stated that graduates if the emergency training course should be called physical therapists?
1943
passing of hill Burton act
-happened in 1946
-resulted in increase of PTS in hospital based practice
When was HOD created?
1944
