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Author: Heide Pöstges, MSc, PT

Heide is Director of Innovation and Training at Bridges Self-Management, where she develops, facilitates and evaluates training and improvement programmes in health and social care. She is also an honorary Research Fellow at St George’s, University of London, and conducts action-oriented research in co-design and knowledge translation to bridge science, art and lived experiences. Heide’s background in physiotherapy, medical anthropology/sociology and community engagement in the art sector helps her to think out of the box.

Physical Therapy at Bath War Hospital: Rehabilitation and Its Links to WW1

Heide Pöstges, MSc, PT explores the accelerated development of rehabilitation medicine during the First World War (WWI), through the artwork of British painter E. Horton. In the painting, “Physical Therapy at Bath War Hospital,” Horton depicts one of the very first physiotherapy departments in England. As Pöstges analyzes the painting in its historical context, we are given a new perspective into the socio-political-economic aspects of the evolution of physical therapy.