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The Sargent School, Boston, MA
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First Polio Epidemic
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RW Lovett and Wilhelmie Wright develop plan to aid those with Polio. Use of "manual muscle testing" to evaluate muscle function.
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Organized by Mary McMillan. It later became the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA).
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Physical therapy was done in hospitals as patients recovered from injuries, surgeries or other ailments.
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Outpatient physical therapy became covered under basic medical coverage for many insurance policies and government programs in the late 1960s
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Cariovascular & Pulmonary
Clinical Electrophysiology
Geriatric
Integumentary
Neurological
Orthopedic
Pediatric
Sports
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Physical Therapy as a profession dealt with increasing diversification, such as orthopedic physical therapy and cardiopulmonary physical therapy.
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Computerized modalities such as ultrasound, electric stimulators, and iontophoresis with the latest advances in therapeutic cold laser, finally gained FDA approval in the United States in 2002.
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By 2020, physical therapy will be provided by physical therapists who are doctors of
physical therapy, recognized by consumers and other health care professionals as the
practitioners of choice to whom consumers have direct access for the diagnosis of,
interventions for, and prevention of impairments, functional limitations, and disabilities
related to movement, function, and health.
