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Strong and modern – physiotherapy and physical culture

27th January 2015 by Dave Nicholls 4 Comments

Physiotherapists are very interested in fitness, leisure and sport, but they rarely discuss the history of these ideas, or the place of physical therapies (massage, manipulations and mobilisations, remedial exercise, electrotherapy, hydrotherapy etc.) in the promotion of the health of the population.  There are a number of reasons why I think we should pay more attention to this specific history.  Firstly, it's one of the few areas where physical therapies have made a genuine contribution to the health of the population.  I don't mean the health of individual patients that, taken together, amounts to the health of the population, but rather an approach applied to the population as a whole - … [Read more...] about Strong and modern – physiotherapy and physical culture

Filed Under: Books, Editorial Tagged With: Caroline Daley, Charlotte Macdonald, Eugene Sandow, eugenics, exercise, fitness, history of ideas, leisure, physical culture, physical therapies, pleasure, population health

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