PHYSIOTHERAPY
Physical Therapy

How physiotherapy has shaped medical history

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/how-physiotherapy-has-shaped-medical-history/ss-AA1hps89?ocid=BingHp01&cvid=65205709d45c4f26f3c53913c5ef6acd&ei=22#image=1
(Various and numerous Web searches did not find a direct link to this posting, so this MSN URL is the best I can offer at this time, Friday, September 29, 2023.)

This is an interesting piece having to do with the history of physiotherapy. The part about Dr. George Herbert Taylor introducing Swedish massage in 1860 is an excellent example of the mathematician practice of rounding: - specifically in this case, rounding up. In fact, the Swedish movement cure, which made heavy use of Swedish massage, was introduced at the New York City water cure establishment of Dr. George H. Taylor in the winter of 1855/1856. Dr. Taylor, who was very education oriented, traveled to Stockholm in 1859 to learn the Swedish movement cure at its source; and, after his return to New York that same year, put a sharpened focus on his movement cure efforts.

Massage, in those days, was called "rubbing." The word, "massage," of French language origin, came into common use in the 1870s.

Taylor's successor at Dr. Taylor's Improved Movement Cure Institute, Dr. George H. Patchen, took part in at least one of the main meetings that led toward the American development of physical therapy as a separate discipline. Dr. Patchen was also the medical theoretician of the treatment field known as chiropractic.

The World War I position, "reconstruction aides," I imagine was based at least in part on the Improved Movement Cure institution job category, "patient assistants."

The patient assistants were getting worn out by this hard work, which led to Dr. George H. Taylor's invention of vibratory massage. He put vibratory massage into practice in 1868, not in the earlier year that is often given.

Footnote: Dr. George H. Taylor's younger brother, Dr Charles Fayette Taylor, muddied the waters a bit as to the American origins of the Swedish movement cure and Swedish massage.

One of the early American advocates of the Swedish movement cure was school teacher Catharine Esther Beecher. While she, personally, may not be commonly remembered today, hers was arguably the most famous and influential American family of the entire nineteenth century.

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