Q 01/05

Which ancient Greek physicians are 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

The date usually given is around 460 BC. Both also believed in the healing power of exercise, an idea that took two millennia to become a profession.

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

The Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics in Stockholm trained instructors in his 'medical gymnastics'. Ling had been a fencing master at Lund Univers...

Q 03/05

Per Henrik Ling, 'the Father of Swedish Gymnastics', held what job at Lund University from 1805?

A) Professor of anatomy

B) University physician

C) Dean of medicine

D) Master of fencing

Answer · why

D) Master of fencing

He is often also called the father of Swedish massage, but massage was never actually part of his gymnastic system.

Q 04/05

In which year did Sweden become the first country to give physical therapists official registration?

A) 1887

B) 1901

C) 1913

D) 1921

Answer · why

A) 1887

Britain followed with a professional society in 1894 and New Zealand opened a physiotherapy school at the University of Otago in 1913.

Q 05/05

The UK's 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

It began as the Society of Trained Masseuses, partly to distinguish respectable practitioners from massage parlours, and received a royal charter from...