#1. Who began animal physiotherapy?
Lord Louis Mountbatten, a member of the British Royal Family and keen polo player, asked his physiotherapist, Charles Strong, whether faradic currents could be used on his ponies. Great success occurred and animal physiotherapy was born. Strong was knighted for his efforts. DM Winks Greene was a student of Strongs who continued his work and became a founder of the UK’s Association of Chartered Physiotherapist in Animal Therapy.
#2. Which country was the source of political strife for the WCPT in the 1980s that saw calls for their expulsion, boycotts of the Sydney Congress and the General Meeting failing to reach a quorum.
WCPT Member Organisations had differing opinions on how to respond to the apartheid regime in South Africa, which resulted in protracted legal wrangling and a postponed General Meeting. Two Member Organisations called for physiotherapists to boycott the Sydney Congress in protest about the South African Society’s continuing membership of the WCPT, and one sought the expulsion of the association. This resulted in the Sydney Congress not receiving as many registrations as anticipated, and the General Meeting not having sufficient delegates present for it to make any decisions.
#3. In Austria what term was used to describe physiotherapy for most of the twentieth century.
Physicotherapy was as an alternative to physiotherapy when the medical profession was developing in the field in the early 1900s, but it was considered too narrow being for the physical agents only. Nevertheless the term persisted in Austria where the medical profession dominated their assistants up until 1995.
#4. Which famous Mexican artist underwent multiple surgeries following an accident, and developed chronic pain, requiring long term physiotherapy?
Frida Kahlo was a renowned Mexican painter who suffered from polio and a life-altering bus accident at the age of 28. In many of her paintings she painted her own suffering
#5. In Argentina, the first course in kinesiology was offered in which year?
Argentina was the first country in Latin America to teach the first courses of Kinesiology in 1922.
#6. Physiotherapy can take the credit for codifying which international sport?
Graduates of the Österburg College for training female physical education teachers in the UK, formed The Ling Association. Having played a game of modified or ‘Women’s Basketball’ they codified and published the rules of Netball in 1901. With their Swedish gymnastics training, members of the Ling Association could work as either physiotherapists or physical educators.
#7. The First World War was not the first for physiotherapy. Members of the Society of Trained Masseuse (now the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy) were present during and helped with the rehabilitation of returned soldiers from which war?
The Second Boer War was a bitter colonial conflict fought in South Africa from 1899 to 1902. In their capacity as nurses that members of the Society of Trained Masseuses (STM) travelled to South Africa. Back in the UK masseuses provided after-care and rehabilitation when the STM organised massage volunteers to provide treatment for injured soldiers.
#8. In what year did American Thelma Maw started the first Physical Therapy Department in Korea at Severance Hospital, Seoul?
American Geraldine Lindberg, was the first physical therapist in Korea; she worked in the US Army hospital from 1945. In 1949 Thelma Maw started a Physical Therapy Department at Severance Hospital, Seoul. The Korean War commence in 1950. The Korean Physical Therapy Association was founded in 1965.
#9. The Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists was not formed until 1983. Why the delay?
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and its predecessors serviced Irish practitioners. In 1908 two of the founding members of the Incorporated Society of Trained Masseuses travelled from London to Dublin to carry out their first examination of students from the Irish School of Massage. The school later became known as the Irish School of Massage and Medical Electricity and in 1942 the Dublin School of Physiotherapy.
#10. When was the Canadian Physiotherapy Association founded (as the Canadian Association of Massage and Remedial Gymnastics)?
In 1915 the Toronto Society of Trained Masseuses had formed, and three years later a similar association was established in Montreal, both seeking to create standards for massage. The two associations agreed in 1919 to establish a national organisation and the Canadian Association of Massage and Remedial Gymnastics was formed in 1920.
#11. In which city has World Physiotherapy been headquartered since it began?
With little funds the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, in London, offered administrative services for the first years of WCPT.
#12. Which country successfully re-trained large groups of Russian medical practitioners to become physiotherapists?
In the late 1980s and early 1990s large numbers of Russian Jews migrated to Israel causing an oversupply of medical practitioners. Health authorities offered a physiotherapy training program to help fill gaps in the physiotherapy work force.
#13. Who was most influential in the introduction of manual therapy techniques to physiotherapists?
Swedish gymnast Henrik Kellgren is considered the father of all manual therapy. His work lead Still to create Osteopathy and BB Palmer to create Chiropractic. However, it was Kellgren’s grandson, orthopaedic surgeon James Cyriax, who specifically trained physiotherapists to effectively use manual therapy. Geoffrey Maitland was a student of Cyriax, who later further developed manual therapy.
#14. Minnie Randall is responsible for the birth of which physiotherapy specialty?
In 1912 Dr John Shields Fairbairn, obstetrician at St Thomas Maternity Hospital, London, commenced a program to revolutionise the medical approach to child delivery. He chose midwife and physiotherapist Minnie Randell (1875–1974) to develop and lead a pre-natal exercise program. In 1948 Randall co-founded the Obstetric Association of Chartered Physiotherapists.
#15. Who brought Ling’s Swedish Movement Cure to the USA in 1856?
Charles Fayette Taylor travelled to England immediately after his medical graduation to learn about Ling’s Swedish Movement Cure. His brother George went to Sweden two years later for the same. So impressed by the treatment Charles Taylor named his son Henry Ling Taylor in honour of the inventor. Some 65 years later, in her 1921 book titled ‘Massage and Therapeutic Exercise’ Mary McMillan, the ‘Mother of Physical Therapy’, also acknowledged Ling for his pioneering work.
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