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    The history of physical therapy and wellness spans from ancient times to the present. [1] Early beliefs attributed illness to supernatural causes but over time medicine became more evidence-based. [2] Key figures like Hippocrates, Galen, and Descartes advanced medical understanding. [3] The concept of "wellness" first emerged in the 17th century and native American traditions also emphasized mind-body connections. Physical therapy grew out of advances in science and surgery in the 19th-20th centuries. In the 1990s, physical therapy began expanding into physical wellness domains.

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    The history of physical therapy and wellness spans from ancient times to the present. [1] Early beliefs attributed illness to supernatural causes but over time medicine became more evidence-based. [2] Key figures like Hippocrates, Galen, and Descartes advanced medical understanding. [3] The concept of "wellness" first emerged in the 17th century and native American traditions also emphasized mind-body connections. Physical therapy grew out of advances in science and surgery in the 19th-20th centuries. In the 1990s, physical therapy began expanding into physical wellness domains.

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    The history of physical therapy and wellness spans from ancient times to the present. [1] Early beliefs attributed illness to supernatural causes but over time medicine became more evidence-based. [2] Key figures like Hippocrates, Galen, and Descartes advanced medical understanding. [3] The concept of "wellness" first emerged in the 17th century and native American traditions also emphasized mind-body connections. Physical therapy grew out of advances in science and surgery in the 19th-20th centuries. In the 1990s, physical therapy began expanding into physical wellness domains.

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    Week 3

    9/6/23 13:42

    History of pt practice wellness


    Past present future

    Roots of PT and wellness


    • Ancient period, people believed illness are caused by supernatural or consequence of evil spirits
    Trephination
    • Coin size holes in the skull to release evil spirits

    6th century BCE


    • Medicine was under philosophy
    ○ Arguments were superior to experiment and practice

    Alcmaeon
    • First physician to formulate the doctrine of health as a balance among the powers of the body
    • 500-400 BCE

    Hipocrates
    • Father of medicine
    • Medicine under philosophy
    • Disproving that diseases was punishment for sin

    Herophilos
    • Dissected cadavers that contributed to advancement including value of pulse

    Erasistratos of Alexandria
    • Describe the brain and cerebrum from cerebellum
    • Brain was the origin of all nerves

    Asklepios
    • god of medicine

    Hygenia
    • goddess of health

    Biomedical model
    • Genes, chemical imbalances, genetics

    Biopsychosocial
    • View the patient as a whole not just the biomedical

    Vienna Disoscuride
    • 1st century
    • 600 plants to be used as a medicine

    Galen
    • Combined hipocrates writing about pathology and humors

    4th BCE
    • First structure or establishment that called hospital

    Thomas aquinas
    • Argued that disease and healing processes are mediated by the patterns of his casualty in the
    world

    Renaissance
    • Advancement of medical science

    Rene Descartes
    • He believe that human body is used for scientific purposes after death
    • After death, the soul leaves the body

    1654
    • First coined the word wellness

    Epicurus
    • First coined the term in his hedonistic philosophy

    Wealness
    • Appeared in the diary of Sir A. Johnson
    • 1654

    Native American
    • There is a connection in mind-body in health and disease
    • Apprenticeship
    ○ Used to train physician in their profession
    1765
    • First school in Pennsylvania

    Diseases
    • are classified into symptoms
    • Herbal medicines

    1800
    • Surgery
    • Doesn’t wear gowns, just casual outfit
    • Wipe to “clean”
    • High risk of infection

    19th century
    • Advances in laboratory equipments

    Robert hooke
    • Microscope

    Anton van leeuwenhoek


    • Bacteria

    1870
    • Germ theory

    1847
    • AMA was established

    1870
    • Harvard and other schooled eliminated apprenticeships

    1885
    • 2 year clinical experience

    Sigmund Freud
    • Austrian neurologist
    • Hysteria
    ○ Extreme fear and emotional excess
    ○ Conversion syndrome

    1900
    • Birth of PT practice
    • High-school diploma and 4 year curriculum was offered

    1914
    • WW1
    • EARLY PT
    ○ Reconstruction aids
    ○ Just receive orders from physicians

    1947
    • WHO

    1950
    • PT services are eligible to receive insurance

    1960 to 1980
    • First graduate entry level PT programs in 1960
    • PT continues to expand

    Halbert Dunn
    • Father of wellness
    • Defined 5 domain of wellness

    1990
    • PT starts to enter physical wellness

    1993
    • Guide to PT practice
    ○ Health promotion and wellness by PT and PT assistants

    2001
    • Fitness and wellness consultation

    2002
    • Humanistic model

    2003 2004
    • More pt wellness were published

    2005
    • APTA
    2006
    • PT to be Exercise experts

    PT TASK-FORCE
    • Fitness and wellness

    First goal
    • Create or adopt definition and model of wellness
    Second goal
    • Revise and expand areas related to wellness
    Third goal
    • Chapter related to wellness
    Fourth goal
    • Wellness seminar
    Fifth goal
    • Fitness wellness section within APTA

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