Australian Physiotherapy Association

The Australian Physiotherapy Association (formerly the Australasian Massage Association) was founded by Teepoo Hall in 1905. The APA has published the Journal of Physiotherapy since 1954.[1]

Australian Physiotherapy Association
AbbreviationAPA
FormationDecember 1905 (1905-12)
FounderTeepoo Hall
Headquarters1175 Toorak Road,
Camberwell, Victoria Australia
President
Scott Willis
Websitehttps://australian.physio
Formerly called
Australasian Massage Association

History

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.[2] 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.[3] Sir Thomas Anderson Stuart was the association's first president.[4]

The first formal field of study for physiotherapy was developed by the AMA, and was approved by Federal Council in May 1906.[5] 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.[6]

At the Second National Physiotherapy Congress in 1939, a decision was made to rename the organization as the Australian Physiotherapy Association.[7] 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.[8]

References
  1. "Journal of Physiotherapy" – via www.journals.elsevier.com.
  2. "AN ASSOCIATION OF MASSEURS". South Australian Register. 30 December 1905. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  3. Fioritti, Nathan (2016-09-08). "Recognising a founder of physiotherapy education in Australia, Frederick Teepoo Hall". Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  4. Evans, E. P. (1955-01-01). "THE HISTORY OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES BRANCH OF THE AUSTRALIAN PHYSIOTHERAPY ASSOCIATION: formerly the Australasian Massage Association". Australian Journal of Physiotherapy. 1 (2): 76–78. doi:10.1016/S0004-9514(14)60817-5. ISSN 0004-9514.
  5. McMeeken, Joan M., author. (2017). Science in our hands : physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne, 1895-2010. ISBN 978-0-7340-5393-0. OCLC 1058404249. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. Chipchase, Lucy S (2006). "Looking back at 100 years of physiotherapy education in Australia" (PDF). Australian Journal of Physiotherapy. 52 (1): 3–7. doi:10.1016/S0004-9514(06)70055-1. PMID 16515416 – via Academia.edu.
  7. Bentley, Philip Geoffrey; Dunstan, David (2006). The Path to Professionalism: Physiotherapy in Australia to the 1980s. pp. 83–86. ISBN 978-1-875107-12-4.
  8. Bentley, Philip Geoffrey; Dunstan, David (2006). The Path to Professionalism: Physiotherapy in Australia to the 1980s. pp. 155–156. ISBN 978-1-875107-12-4.
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