Health profession that aims to address the illnesses or injuries that limit a person's abilities to function in everyday lives

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A surgeon and two assistants manipulating a dislocated shoulder joint back into the correct position. Etching by T. Jefferys.

Reclaiming the maimed : a handbook of physical therapy / by R. Tait McKenzie.

A man is treated to a cascade of water in the name of hydropathy. Lithograph by C. Jacque, 1843.

A surgeon and two assistants manipulating dislocated shoulder back into the correct position and other diagrams of different methods of curing dislocation. Etching.

Two pieces of apparatus that are used to manipulate dislocated shoulders and jaws back into the correct position, apparently conceived by W. Fabricius Hildanus. Etching by J. Bell.

Orthopedic traction, the Archimedes screw and astronomical instruments: seven figures. Etching, 1769.

A man is violently rubbed with magnets. Coloured lithograph by C. Jacque, c. 1843.

Physical therapy at Bath War Hospital. Watercolour by E. Horton, ca. 1918.

Patricia Morphew.

Belysning af Hr Professor G. Brantings "Upplysningar" / af F.A. Cederschjöld.

Three-dimensional treatment for scoliosis : a physiotherapeutic method for deformities of the spine / Christa Lehnert-Schroth.

Journal de physiothérapie.

Die Behandlung der steifen Finger / von Otto Thilo.

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Physical Therapy Specialty

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Images about Physical Therapy Specialty

Works from the collections

Patricia Morphew.

Belysning af Hr Professor G. Brantings "Upplysningar" / af F.A. Cederschjöld.

Three-dimensional treatment for scoliosis : a physiotherapeutic method for deformities of the spine / Christa Lehnert-Schroth.

Journal de physiothérapie.

Die Behandlung der steifen Finger / von Otto Thilo.

Physical Therapy Specialty

Images from the collections

Images about Physical Therapy Specialty

Works from the collections

Patricia Morphew.

Belysning af Hr Professor G. Brantings "Upplysningar" / af F.A. Cederschjöld.

Three-dimensional treatment for scoliosis : a physiotherapeutic method for deformities of the spine / Christa Lehnert-Schroth.

Journal de physiothérapie.

Die Behandlung der steifen Finger / von Otto Thilo.

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