Physical Therapists
Who was Marguerite Sanderson
1st supervisor of reconstruction aides, recruiting and arranging training for rec aides.
What did the WWl congress authorize?
The legislation to rehab permanently disabled service workers of the U.S military.
PT
Physical therapist
#1
Mantain professional and scientific standards
What were graduates in 1922 called?
Physiotherapists
Who was Mary McMillan
One of the first founders and the 1st President of the American Physical Therapy Association
In 1916 what did poliomyelitis result in?
Infantie Paralysis
PTA
Physical therapy assistant
#2
Promote the science of PT
In what year did AWPTA change its name to American physiotherapist association.
1922
who were the first type of physical therapist?
reconstruction aids
On January 15, 1921 what did McMillian and 30 former reconstruction aides turn themselves into?
PTs
ACPT
American college of physical therapy
#3
Aid in the establishment of education standards and scientific research.
In 1930 what did the physiotherapist and AMA create
Standers for the profession
What did Hugh Owen Thomas invent?
Thomas splint.
How many woman in 1917, were called reconstruction aids?
1,200
AMA
American medical association
#4
To cooperate with and to work only under the standards of medical profession
Between 1919-1920 the reconstruction aides went from 748 to what number?
49
What did McMillan’s degree include?
Corrective exercises, massage, electrotherapy, aftercare of fracture, dynamics of scoliosis, neurology, and neuroanatomy.
When did the official publication of the association first appear?
March 1921
AWPTA
American women‘s physical therapeutics association.
#5
Provide available info to those interested in PT.
At the first conference in Boston in 1922 what did the Association change its name to?
American Physiotherapy Association.