Physiotherapy started as an area of need after the Second World War.The British government sent about two physiotherapists from the UK to Nigeria to treat World War victims. And what they did was to gather few people who had school certificate and train them. Those trained were called physiotherapy technicians; they were trained at Igbobi Hospital. For a long time, these were the ones rendering services. But then, some Nigerians went to the UK to obtain the same qualification the Europeans had. The first ones that got there qualified in 1953 and came back to University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. We can say that was when we started properly.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Physiotherapy started as an area of need after the Second World War.The British government sent about two physiotherapists from the UK to Nigeria to treat World War victims. And what they did was to gather few people who had school certificate and train them. Those trained were called physiotherapy technicians; they were trained at Igbobi Hospital. For a long time, these were the ones rendering services. But then, some Nigerians went to the UK to obtain the same qualification the Europeans had. The first ones that got there qualified in 1953 and came back to University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. We can say that was when we started properly." in the context of "Why the prevailing environment and how did physiotherapy start in Nigeria?" to mean that wisdom is timeless.