Duke University School of Medicine - Aesculapian Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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n I 191911,-:aural Ulberapp l if ' W' -e . -, 9 A 'Q HQ ' 4 ' 4 f Q -4 . Q K 1 'U' ' x s 1 . K, A-Y XX A 'Is V 'H X c1.ARK.G. COMP'l'ON,P:. CoRYE:L.1.,.1, EA'1l0N.G. c.pimxmArw,i+.K. liUNI'E.R,l.. .4 ' A -3 t. 10 ,ps , '?X' i , i V A N. L, - .7 ' fl ' ' . . , u-, X , , J 33 4 vu w ' , 1. X ,Qt fe L i - x , r A-+ 11 1 KJOSNESM. GEp1WE11,ER,F, LEWIS'J. MELQy,1g,gjgyJ1E1, IX'IrpORE,li,LD, SEVERANCEJX. ls '-- V ' 'ai A J' ' ' . fu- f at 1- 51 ' 9 ! J' ' 'f , . , f . ' ' r 5- X 11. 1 Kr' , 1 yw X -I x ' ' B A ' S I'ARLING.N- STRUNG,Ii, A STVlE'I'ANA,J. SYKESJ. Vf 'WlAV-f'9- -9, 'wk ftqfl : W . W. , Back row: Wood, M., Brewer, M. F., Lane, R., Litaker, R. M., Smith, J. A., Flanagan, E. M., Shealy, M. E. Front row: Kelly B. L., Horton, G. C., Kaiser, H., Tilghman, H., Peake, C. W. Physical Therapy became available to patients soon after the opening of Duke Hospital. In 1943 due to the increased demand for such treatment and personnel, brought about by the large numbers of war maimed and injured, Duke Hospital and Medical School in co-operation with the Woman's College established an accredited nine months' course in Physical Therapy for properly qualified men and women college graduates. Dr. Lenox D. Baker was asked to serve as Medical Director and Miss Helen Kaiser as Director of Physical Therapy. Since that time 120 students have successfully completed the course. Forty-eight of these have remained to practice in North Carolina. After the first year the length of the course was increased to one year and very soon thereafter to fifteen months. A recent grant from the Office of Voca- tional Rehabilitation will make it possible to double the enrollment. Beginning with 1956, 24 students will be accepted. The educational program has been assisted also by grants from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The division employs 11 physical therapists, one re- search associate from a foreign country and several graduate student assistants who are working toward an advanced degree in the departments of Anatomy or Physiology and are relating their theses to some phase of Physical Therapy. In addition to its educational program for physical therapists, in-service training programs in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation are given for nurses, medical students, house staff, administrative intems and record librarians. From tune to time in conjunction with the Department of Psychiatry a six months course in Patient Management has been offered to graduate physical therapists. Patients are referred to the division from all the major services and the majority of minor ones. The greatest numbers come from the departments of Medi- cine and Obs tetrics. These are followed in close suc- cession by Orthopedics Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Neuro-surgery. Since 1944 a group program of exercises or activities has been carried on with the psychiatric patients on Meyer Ward. The most recent expansion of services has been to provide physical therapy in the home to patients who after discharge from the hospital are unable to return for follow up care. This has been made possible through the assignment of a physical therapist to the division through the courtesy of the North Carolina League for Crippled Children and Adults. The Physical Therapy division is well supplied with the customary as well as most recent equipment usually associated with Physical Therapy, including a therapeutic pool. It is interesting to note in this connection, how- ever, that exercises are used five times as frequently as any other procedure. HELEN KAISER, R.P.T.

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