what year did army physical therapy begin
In 1947 the name was changed once more to the American Physical Therapy Association. The American Physiotherapy Association began with 245 members in 1921 and to grew to about 1,000 members by the end of the 1930s. With the advent of World War II and a nationwide polio epidemic during the 1940s and 1950s, physical therapists were in greater demand than ever before.