Elizabeth Kenny
Elizabeth Kenny was an unaccredited Australian nurse who promoted a controversial new approach to the treatment of poliomyelitis.
Her findings ran counter to conventional medical wisdom; they demonstrated the need to exercise muscles affected by polio instead of immobilising them. Kenny’s principles of muscle rehabilitation became the foundation of physical therapy, or physiotherapy.
- Date of birth:
- 20th September, 1880
- Date of death:
- 30th November, 1952