physical therapy
noun
the treatment or management of physical disability, malfunction, or pain by exercise, massage, hydrotherapy, etc., without the use of medicines, surgery, or radiation.
the health profession that provides such care.
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Origin of physical therapy
First recorded in 1920–25
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