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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.