AMEDD Medical Museum Foundation

Fort Sam Houston, TX

Medical Specialist Corps - Established 1947
 
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Dietitian supervises tray service to patients at Walter Reed General Hospital, c. 1967.
Dietitians perform subsistence inventory, Brooke Army Medical Center, 1968.
Patient with leg injury receives instructions from occupational therapist on how to use the bicycle jig saw. This machine was designed to increase the strength and range of motion of the patient’s lower extremities, c. 1968.
An occupational therapist works with an upper extremity Vietnam War amputee on using his prosthesis. Walter Reed General Hospital, c. 1968.
A physiotherapy aide (forerunner of commissioned physical therapist) works with a patient at Walter Reed Hospital, c. 1940.
Physical therapist at Kimbrough Army Hospital, Ft Meade, MD, supervises a patient in his daily exercises to maintain muscle strength while he recovers from a fractured leg, c. 1969.
Physical therapist assists patient with resistive hand exercises at Walter Reed General Hospital c. 1972.

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