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The archive
Every piece on the site, grouped by the five sections. The institutional history of physical therapy: its schools, societies, wards and apparatus, 1813 onward.
Stockholm
- StockholmPer Henrik Ling and the Stockholm Curriculum, 1813The institute that gave movement a syllabus
- StockholmFour Nurses and a Register: 1894A profession draws its own boundary
- StockholmWhat the 1920 Charter Actually ChangedA stamp of legitimacy, not a change of practice. The 1920 royal charter gave the Society legal standing and a stronger negotiating position.
- StockholmTwo Journals, Two Continents, Six Years ApartThe British Head Start
- StockholmHow the Commonwealth Organised Its OwnTwo Dominions, Two Registers
- StockholmThe World Confederation Meets for the First Time, 1951A Meeting with a Specific Agenda
The Polio Years
- The Polio YearsNew York, Summer 1916: The First Mass EpidemicWhat the Numbers Said
- The Polio YearsThe Pool at Warm Springs and What It BecameThe Water Before the Foundation
- The Polio Years57,600 Reported Cases: The 1952 Season in FiguresThe Numbers That Landed on Administrators' Desks
- The Polio YearsTwo Vaccines, Six Years ApartFrom Field Trial to Empty Ward
- The Polio YearsRancho Los Amigos and the Respiratory WardThe Building and Its Machines
- The Polio YearsMary McMillan and the Reconstruction Aides, 1918From the Wards to the Association
Apparatus
- ApparatusDrinker's Machine and Emerson's RevisionTwo engineers, a patent dispute, and the iron lung: how Emerson's 1931 revision sold at about a third of the price of Drinker's 1928 cabinet.
- ApparatusWhat the Hubbard Tank Was Actually ForThe Tank in the Ward
- ApparatusMeasuring the Body on Paper: Goniometer and DynamometerWhy Numbers Changed What Physiotherapy Could Claim
- ApparatusThe Wall of Apparatus: Wax Bath and Short-Wave DiathermyThe Interwar Inventory
- ApparatusThe Gymnasium Floor: Parallel Bars and the Wooden PlinthTwo pieces of furniture that organised every other decision
- ApparatusFrom Brass to Electronics: The Isokinetic DynamometerThe machine that turned movement into a number on paper
People
- PeopleMary McMillan Before the Association ExistedFrom Liverpool to the Wards of France
- PeopleThe Kenny Method Was an Argument, Not a SettlementWhen a Nurse Arrived With a Theory
- PeopleBerta and Karel Bobath in London, 1940s–1960sA Marriage of Institutions
- PeopleTwo Australasians, Two Systems, Seventeen Years ApartThe men, the books, the dates
- PeopleFlorence Kendall and the Standard That HeldThe Book Behind the Standard
- PeopleRobert Jones, Agnes Hunt, and the Oswestry TraditionA Country House Becomes a Hospital
Buildings
- BuildingsThe Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Its GymnasiumA Building That Argued for a Discipline
- BuildingsThe Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital at OswestryA Field Becomes a Ward
- BuildingsThe Warm Springs Colonnade: What the Building SaidA Campus That Chose Its Form
- BuildingsThe Hospital Gymnasium in the 1930s: A Room with an Argument in ItThe Space That Defined the Claim
- BuildingsBuilt for the Returning Soldier: Rehabilitation Wards, 1919 and 1945The First Armistice and Its Architecture