Q 01/05

Which ancient Greeks are often credited as the first practitioners of physical therapy?

A) Aristotle and Plato

B) Hippocrates and Galen

C) Herophilus and Erasistratus

D) Pythagoras and Empedocles

Answer · why

B) Hippocrates and Galen

Hippocrates and Galen both treated patients with their hands: Hippocrates wrote that a physician must be skilled in rubbing, and Galen began as physic...

Q 02/05

In which country did Per Henrik Ling found the 1813 gymnastics institute seen as the origin of physical therapy?

A) Sweden

B) Germany

C) Denmark

D) Switzerland

Answer · why

A) Sweden

Sweden. After several failed appeals to the government, Ling won its backing in 1813 for the Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics in Stockholm, which...

Q 03/05

Per Henrik Ling, whose gymnastics gave rise to physical therapy, was hired by Lund University in 1805 to teach which sport?

A) Fencing

B) Wrestling

C) Archery

D) Rowing

Answer · why

A) Fencing

Fencing. Ling took it up on his travels abroad, found that daily exercise restored his own failing health, and so began designing exercises to do the ...

Q 04/05

Which global sporting event grew from a 1948 archery contest for wheelchair-using war veterans at Stoke Mandeville Hospital?

A) The Invictus Games

B) The Special Olympics

C) The Paralympic Games

D) The Commonwealth Games

Answer · why

C) The Paralympic Games

The Paralympic Games began as rehabilitation: Dr Ludwig Guttmann made sport part of treatment at his spinal injuries unit, and timed his 16-archer con...

Q 05/05

The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy was founded in 1894 by four members of which profession?

A) Surgeons

B) Army officers

C) Nurses

D) Gymnastics teachers

Answer · why

C) Nurses

Nurses founded it as the Society of Trained Masseuses, to protect their trade after press stories warned of massage being offered as a cover for other...