When did the words physical therapy & physiotherapy appear in the literature? From my reading it likely appeared in the late 1800. It was a medical specialty and applied to physicians not to the physical therapists of today. Around 1904 Robert Tait McKenzie, MD was a "Professor of Physical Therapy in the Department of Physical Education" at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and taught physical therapy to medical students. Physicians practicing physical medicine and rehabilitation were known as "physical therapists". Who was the first to coin the term? Thank you!
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