Elizabeth Kenny Scientist

• Gender: Female
• Citizenship: Australia
• Born: Sep 20, 1880
• Died: Nov 30, 1952

Elizabeth Kenny was an unaccredited Australian nurse who promoted a controversial new approach to the treatment of poliomyelitis . Her findings ran counter to conventional medical wisdom; they demonstrated the need to exercise muscles affected by polio instead of immobilizing them. Kenny's principles of muscle rehabilitation became the foundation of physical therapy, or physiotherapy.