This course is aimed at physical therapists and physicians who are interested in the successful and common links in the story of the history of medicine. The focus is the process of the advancement of medicine — it is the process of thinking. This story starts in the days of the Ancient Greeks around 500 B.C., then travels into the Roman times, the Dark Ages and the Renaissance. The lessons learned will then be taken across the ocean and applied to sports medicine and, finally, into baseball medicine. This is not so much a story of statistics and facts as it is a story of how we arrived at today and where we are going tomorrow. Hopefully, we can learn from the story: We won’t need to repeat history, but we can look at the commonalities in the progressive steps and invent our future.

Goals & Objectives:

At the completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

1. Describe the attributes of world leaders in medicine throughout time.
2. Discuss the rational for the ~1,500 year success of Galenic medicine, as well as the fall of Galenic medicine.
3. Identify the process upon which pre-determinism in medicine came to an end.
4. Discuss the epidemiological data that leads the world to understand the effect of high pitching volume on injury.
5. Apply the thought process leading to progress in medicine in clinical practice today.

Continuing education credits

This course is acceptable for credit in most states for PTs and PTAs.