From Ling to the academic era – An analysis of the history of ideas in PT from a Nordic perspective
Bibliographic record
Abstract
There has been little interest in the historical development and the history of ideas of physiotherapy (PT). The overall aim in this study is to explore the origin and main ideas, concepts and patterns of thoughts in PT and their change over time from 1830–1979 in Finland and Sweden in order to increase the understanding of PT. The study uses a history of ideas approach and is based on Gadamer's hermeneutic ontology, which closely links thinking and conceptualization. The material consisted of textbooks used in PT education, articles from scientific and professional journals, chronicles, minutes and reports from government inquiry. A holistic and naturalistic perspective on PT were early arisen and constant distinctive, but through various forms. A pattern of thought over times is movement as a natural and curative health promoting agent in contrast to a medical remedy. The main ideas of physiotherapy can be understood according to three perspectives on movement: the health cure, the medical cure and the exercise cure. The main ideas form a basis for understanding movement as the core concept of physiotherapy. PT has a knowledge base of its own that has preserved over time, distinct from medicine and other health disciplines.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".