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Physicians such as Hippocrates and later Galen are believed to have been the first practitioners of physical therapy, advocating massage, manual therapy techniques and hydrotherapy to treat people around 460 BC. After the development of orthopaedics in the eighteenth century, machines like the Gymnasticon were developed to treat gout and similar diseases by systematic exercise of the joints, similar to later developments in physical therapy.
One of the earliest documented origins of actual physical therapy as a professional group date back to Per Henrik Ling, “Father of Swedish Gymnastics,” who founded the Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics (RCIG) in 1813 for manipulation and exercise. In 1887, PTs were given official registration by Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare. Other countries soon followed. In 1894, four nurses in Great Britain formed the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. The School of Physiotherapy at the University of Otago in New Zealand in 1913, and the United States’ 1914 Reed College in Portland, Oregon, which graduated reconstruction aides. Since the profession’s inception, spinal manipulative therapy has been a component of the physical therapist practice.
Back in the late 1950s, physical therapists started to move beyond hospital-based practice to outpatient orthopaedic clinics, public schools, colleges/universities health-centres, geriatric settings, rehabilitation centres and medical centres. In the year of 1974, the International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Physical Therapists was formed, which has ever since played an important role in advancing manual therapy worldwide.
Physiotherapy helps to restore the movement and function of the body, when someone is affected by injury, illness or disability. Undertaking a physio session can also help to reduce your risk of injury or illness in the future. Taking a holistic approach to treatment, our Hampstead physiotherapists encourage patients to get involved in their own care.
Physio sessions can be helpful for people of all ages with a wide range of health conditions, including issues that affect things such as:
Not only can physio be used to help treat problems, but it can also prevent issue and problems from occurring.
A Physiotherapist is the person who carries out physio sessions, rather than looking at a particular problem or issue, a physio looks at the body as a whole, when treating a problem. Physios are work in a number of settings throughout the UK, including hospitals, health clinics, GP surgeries and at some sports clubs and charities. Some private physios also offer home visits to help treat issues and problems.
Physios don’t just directly treat a problem, they offer a range of methods to help make their patients more aware of the issues to make them aware of ways to prevent medical issues from recurring. Some of the thing physio do include:
Founded in 1894, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has grown to become the profession’s largest membership organisation. The society supports research into physiotherapy through the CSP Charitable Trust which funds the Physiotherapy Research Foundation. It works to build knowledge in the professions by funding research to inform clinical practice and clinical effectiveness and build research capacity in the profession by providing new researchers with opportunities to gain funding to enhance their research skills and experience.