The Lingiad
An international gymnastics display, with 7,399 participants from twelve countries, was held in Stockholm in 1939 to commemorate the centenary …
How an Anglo-Indian Man Made Australian Physiotherapy Great
Australia was the first country in the world to teach and examine all aspects of physiotherapy: exercise, massage and manipulation, and electrotherapy, in programmes aligned with universities. Early physiotherapists were not nurses, and men were as numerous as women. ‘Massage’ did not fairly describe the practitioners’ real knowledge and skills, …
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History of the First Physiotherapy University Schools in South Africa
University of the Witwatersrand In 1924 the department of physiotherapy had been established in the Johannesburg Hospital and had been opened to patients in September 1925. Dr EB Woolf had been appointed as head of this department in February 1925. On the 12th April 1926, a meeting between Professor Raymond …
Zoom recording of yesterday’s IPHA Whole Group meeting
Although it’s less than ideal, video meetings do, at least, allow us to record and disseminate get-togethers. Here’s a link (Password: 6E$+34Y0) to yesterday’s biannual IPHA whole group meeting. The 2nd half of the meeting is devoted to a plan to develop a new History101 course, and we’re looking for ideas …
Resources on the history of physiotherapy in France
Last week we received an email from Professor Cecil Larochelle who sent us some fantastic writings on the history of French physiotherapy. See the list of references below. R. Remondière, Réhabiliter Deménÿ, Annales de Kinésithérapie, 1992, 19 : 387-90. R. Remondière, L’institution de la kinésithérapie en France (1840-1986), Polysémies de …
“History of Physiotherapy in the Post-War Period and the 1950s” – An Oral History Project from Germany (Work in Progress)
By Karoline Munsch and Sandra Schiller Over the years, quite a number of oral history projects have been conducted in physiotherapy, for example in the USA (https://www.apta.org/History/OralHistories/), the United Kingdom (http://sami.bl.uk) and New Zealand (https://100yearsofphysio.org.nz/oral-histories/). The occasion for such projects has often been an anniversary, e.g. the centenary of the founding …
Physiotherapy in a time of pandemic
Landry et al make a good point in their recent editorial connecting the outbreak of infectious diseases with the need for rehabilitation (Landry et al., 2020). They suggest that ‘physiotherapy can mediate the deleterious pulmonary, respiratory, and immobility complications that are commonplace’ after the kinds of widespread infections we are …
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Hydrotherapy: An integral part of physical medicine
Hydrotherapy: An integral part of physical medicine. This video clip (circa 1952) available from the Wellcome library shows the benefits of therapeutic touch conveyed through a range of treatments used in rehabilitation, including exercise, massage and hydrotherapy. The physicality of the patient-therapist interactions highlighted in this clip sit in sharp contrast …
The Development of Physiotherapy in South Africa
In 1921 a small group of masseurs in Cape Town banded together to form the Certified Masseurs Association, primarily to rehabilitate soldiers after World War I as well as the patients affected by the polio epidemic also hitting South Africa. In the same year the first pioneer group in the …
The process of physiotherapy professionalisation in the UK – Development of autonomy, Part I
Notes on the relationship between physiotherapy and the medical profession in the early days of the National Health Service In the early days of the UK National Health Service (which came into being on 5thJuly, 1948) the influence of the medical profession in terms of the direction, prescription, education and …
APTA Centenary
Cameron MacDonald – USA representative for IPHA, though with an accent that is very southern… The countdown to the 100 year anniversary of the professional association for physical therapist practice in the United Sites commenced at the Combined Sections Meeting (CSM) in Denver CO on February 12th. The official launch …