Australian Physiotherapy Association

In February 1905, the prominent physician Frederick Teepoo Hall called a meeting of scholars to call attention to the need for an organization which protected the profession of massage.{{Cite news|date=30 December 1905|title=AN ASSOCIATION OF MASSEURS|work=South Australian Register|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/55658213|access-date=24 August 2020|archive-date=23 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023115437/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/55658213|url-status=live}} By December 1905, the idea had considerable traction and Teepoo Hall convened a special meeting to form the Australasian Massage Association (AMA) with the purpose of establishing massage as a professional field.{{Cite web|last=Fioritti|first=Nathan|date=2016-09-08|title=Recognising a founder of physiotherapy education in Australia, Frederick Teepoo Hall|url=https://mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/news-and-events/news-archive/recognising-a-founder-of-physiotherapy-in-australia,-frederick-teepoo-hall|access-date=2020-08-22|website=Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences|language=en|archive-date=2020-08-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810020549/https://mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/news-and-events/news-archive/recognising-a-founder-of-physiotherapy-in-australia,-frederick-teepoo-hall|url-status=dead}} Sir Thomas Anderson Stuart was the association's first president.{{Cite journal|last=Evans|first=E. P.|date=1955-01-01|title=THE HISTORY OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES BRANCH OF THE AUSTRALIAN PHYSIOTHERAPY ASSOCIATION: formerly the Australasian Massage Association|journal=Australian Journal of Physiotherapy|language=en|volume=1|issue=2|pages=76–78|doi=10.1016/S0004-9514(14)60817-5|issn=0004-9514|doi-access=free}}

The first paid secretary, Evelyn Paget Evans, of the Australasian Trained Nurses Association also became the General secretary of this Association (which was then called the Australian Massage Association) in 1917. Evans served as the secretary until 1956.{{Citation |last=Godden |first=Judith |title=Evelyn Paget Evans (1881–1960) |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/evans-evelyn-paget-10128 |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |access-date=2023-09-27 |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en |last2=Radi |first2=Heather |archive-date=2023-10-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002220730/https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/evans-evelyn-paget-10128 |url-status=live }}

The first formal field of study for physiotherapy was developed by the AMA, and was approved by Federal Council in May 1906.{{Cite book |last=McMeeken, Joan M. |title=Science in our hands : physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne, 1895-2010|year=2017|isbn=978-0-7340-5393-0|oclc=1058404249}} During World War I and World War II, physical therapy and massage as a field became in much higher demand, and the term physiotherapy became more well known.{{Cite journal|last=Chipchase|first=Lucy S|date=2006|title=Looking back at 100 years of physiotherapy education in Australia|journal=Australian Journal of Physiotherapy|volume=52|issue=1|pages=3–7|doi=10.1016/S0004-9514(06)70055-1|pmid=16515416|doi-access=free}}

At the Second National Physiotherapy Congress in 1939, a decision was made to rename the organization as the Australian Physiotherapy Association.{{Cite book|last1=Bentley|first1=Philip Geoffrey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PVZ2Ug-6SpAC&q=australian+physiotherapy+association+Queen+Elizabeth+II+1962&pg=PT237|title=The Path to Professionalism: Physiotherapy in Australia to the 1980s|last2=Dunstan|first2=David|year=2006|isbn=978-1-875107-12-4|pages=83–86|language=en}} The APA began publishing Australian Journal of Physiotherapy (which was later renamed the Journal of Physiotherapy) in 1954. In August 1962 Queen Elizabeth II granted royal patronage to the APA.{{Cite book|last1=Bentley|first1=Philip Geoffrey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PVZ2Ug-6SpAC&q=australian%20physiotherapy%20association%20royal%20patronage&pg=PT145|title=The Path to Professionalism: Physiotherapy in Australia to the 1980s|last2=Dunstan|first2=David|date=2006|isbn=978-1-875107-12-4|pages=155–156|language=en}}

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• [https://australian.physio/ Official Website]
• [https://www.therapysolutionsforkids.com/ Therapy Solutions]
• [https://www.prnpt.com/locations/378/PRN-Physical-Therapy-Escondido/Escondido/location-details PRN Physical Therapy]

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