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Jul 24, 2021 · Clinician and educator Mary McMillan stands out as a major force behind the development of the physical therapy profession in 20 th century America. Although McMillan launched the profession, reconstruction aide Emma Elva Vogel shared McMillan’s knowledge and ethos—in addition to her own experience—with thousands of students, helping to spur the profession forward from its infancy in ...
- Gini Blodgett Birchett
- 2021
In the summer of 1941, six months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Emma Vogel — who began her Army career as a reconstruction aide, was trained by Mary McMillan at Reed College in Oregon, and was a founding figure in the physical therapy profession — initiated the first War..
Aug 9, 2021 · Podcast. Listening Time — 23:07. Listen to this PTJ interview that discusses two recent essays on the history of physical therapy in the military, as well as important and insightful lessons on what can be learned from the military to empower the profession in civilian health care. In this centennial year, and in a year of continued ...
Dec 23, 2015 · Biographical Note: Emma E. Vogel was born in Mankato, Minnesota. She graduated from State Teacher’s ollege in 1908 and received a degree in physical therapy training from Reed College in 1918. Vogel’s Army career began in 1919 when she was appointed a physical therapist at Army General Hospital No. 24 near Pittsburgh, PA.
Aug 21, 1981 · Col. Emma Vogel, Physical Therapy Pioneer. August 20, 1981 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Retired Army Col. Emma E. Vogel, 91, a physical therapist who was head of the old Women's Medical Specialist Corps from ...
Colonel Emma Vogel, USA: The Innovator Who Set the Stage for Physical Therapists in the Military
Aug 18, 2021 · The Gist - PTJ recently ran an open access piece about Colonel Emma Vogel, one of the first physical therapists in the US Army and the very first one at Army General Hospital near Pittsburgh, PA in 1919 (though, technically they were called Physiotherapy Aides until she convinced Congress to change that in 1944). She served at Walter Reed ...
