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Many procedures of physical therapy are known to mankind for a long time. Mounts of sources and appropriate findings, the archaeologists have made show that thermal and mineral springs were already used in early times.
4000 years ago the Chinese, but also the rough Teutons already knew sweat baths, and various forms of massage. Yet these procedures were not part of any rational therapy suffering, but rather religious and magical procedures or nonspecific remedies. Even in the archaic medicine in Greece had been bathing a dual function: it served the same cleaning and religious purposes.

Hippocrates is considered the founder of scientific medicine

Only Hippocrates of Kos (460-377 BC) represented views which are reflected in principles of today’s physical therapy. He understood the body as a living organism, health as balance and disease as disturbed physical and mental state overall. He was also convinced that nature has a kind of its own healing power. Seeing the doctor’s task