Physical Therapy – an Overview

Posted by Van Hellen | June 20th, 2010 in History of Physiotherapy | 1 Comment »

Fango, Kneipp and massage – this is the one most people spontaneously, when it comes to physical therapy or physical therapy. Some people think then perhaps even to the physiotherapy. In the physical therapy has much more to offer.

The first confusion rises at the concept: what physical therapy is different from physical therapy? There are different opinions. While the talk of a physical therapy and physiotherapy in the same breath and with it the same thing, others turn a difference. Even the legislature is not entirely conclusive: on one hand he speaks of a “physical therapist law,” the other, he says elsewhere, “Physical Therapy”.

Sometimes it is also dependent on the profession, which term is preferred: doctors often talk about the Physical Therapy, physiotherapists and masseurs are rather of the physiotherapy. Physiotherapists and masseurs further training call themselves physiotherapists, doctors konnnen “Specialist in Physical Medicine to be” or the suffix “take physical therapy.” The Physical Therapy in turn is part of Physical Medicine.


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