session 6: Joaquin Cabezas

Joaquin Cabezas, is a exelent physical therapist because your contribution was fundamental for this discipline in Chile.
This persons was the first physical therapy in Chile. The profession of Joaquin Cabezas it was teacher of physical education.
At to end of the S. XIXth scholarship holder travelled to Europe to learn a new method, in France, the physical therapy. He was also in Stocolmo.He returned to Chile to applying the learned.
In 1906 there was inaugurated the Top Institute of Physical and Manual Education.
The "Kinesiterapia" interfered as a branch of the teachers of physical education.
The fundation of this new carrer is a important contribution for the modern physical therapy.
In my opinion Joaquin Cabezas is the father of the physical therapy in Chile, and is very important the aport for the rehabilitation in this country.
I think that this persons is the more inportant in the physical therapy area, because is the first physical therapist, He created the "Instituto Superior de Educación Física y Manual" and finally this event changed the rehabilitation in Chile.