Physical_Therapy

Physical Therapy The principles of physical therapy have been part of the healing arts since the beginning of recorded time. The instinctive rubbing of a bruise or an ache is a basic form of physical therapy. As early as 3000 B.C., the Chinese used rubbing as a therapeutic measure. Hippocrates advocated it in his writings in 460 B.C. The Romans, as well as every other civilization, used it. Finally, in 1812, Peter Hanley Ling developed the first scientific basis for therapeutic massage. Hand in hand with the development of massage went scientific muscle re-education or training. Sometimes this was accomplished with mechanical assistance. But, just as often, it involved the physical, healing, training, therapy, therapeutic, scientific, rubbing, reconstruction, programs, massage, hand, early, division, bc, arts, writings, wounded, worshipped, while, war, vocational, united, treatments, time, therapist, surgeon, states, standard, specific, special, sometimes, since, romans, recorded