<P> Physicians like Hippocrates and later Galen are believed to have been the first practitioners of physical therapy , advocating massage , manual therapy techniques and hydrotherapy to treat people in 460 BC . After the development of orthopedics in the eighteenth century , machines like the Gymnasticon were developed to treat gout and similar diseases by systematic exercise of the joints , similar to later developments in physical therapy . </P>
who is considered the founder of physical therapy
Physicians like Hippocrates and later Galen are believed to have been the first practitioners of physical therapy