• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.484-492
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• 2017

This study assessed female occupational therapist job stress and musculoskeletal pain, and examines the problems caused by sexual harassment, family, and marriage policy. The results provide information to improve work environments, reduce job stress, yield data needed for sexual harassment prevention education, examine women occupational therapists' economic activities, and broadly improve the quality of life through participation. The study subjects were currently employed female occupational therapists. Initially 200 subjects were recruited, of whom 185 returned the study questionnaire. Questions addressing job stress included, 'There are times when one feels that the salary is worth less than the job effort', 'Feel tired due to work.', 'That it is time to pay attention to other therapy.', answered positively in that order. Musculoskeletal pain in the wrist and hand (90%), shoulder (86%), neck (69.7%) and waist (68.6%) were the order of the wrist and hand (63%), shoulder (62.2%) and waist (51.9%) pain resulted in interference with daily life. Verbal harassment was reported by 71.4% and 48.6% reported physical and visual harassment. The most common topics in workplace relations were 'Must choose whether to focus on the individual or work (61.1%).', 'Need for understanding and someone who can share their feelings (54.6%).', and 'Colleagues are willing to listen to my story (73%)'.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.538-545
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to analyze the change of body temperature and pain by application of Gaussian magnetic for the elderly delayed muscle pain. For the purpose, we selected 15 elderly women(age;$69.47{\pm}1.60$) and conducted repeated experiments. The Gaussian magnetic field area was divided into three areas (1000G, 1500G, 2000G). The applying arbitrarily manufactured magnetic field wristbands changes of body heat and pain before and after wearing Gaussian magnetic were measured and collected data were analyzed using SPSS 19.0. To examine the pre-and post-treatment differences by treatment areas, we conducted paired t-test. Group differences and interaction effects were analyzed using two-way ANOVA and Duncan post hoc tests. The significance level was set to ${\alpha}=.05$. The results are as follows. The change of body heat by the Gaussian magnetic field area showed significant differences in all three groups(P<.05). There were also significant differences in the results of group interactions and in the delayed muscle pain scale between groups(P<.05). The area with the largest difference appeared in the area of 1500G field. The 1000G-1500G Gauss field is considered to be the most ideal magnetic field for body heat and muscle pain changes. In conclusion, the Gaussian magnetic field of 1000G-1500G may affect body temperature and muscle pain in the elderly, and may have a significant impact on the quality of life in old age.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Oriental Medical Informatics
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.73-80
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• 2008

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to find clinical approachment of rheumatoid arthritis with herbal medicine Byeong-geo-tang(竝祛湯 ; bing qu tang) Methods: We provided acupuncture, bee venom aqua - acupuncture, Byeong-geo-tang(竝祛湯 ; bing qu tang) on a patient of rheumatoid arthritis. Symptoms were estimated with the visual analog scale. Results: Patients chief complaints were pain and ankylosis of her right fingers and left toes and pain of her both wrists. Symptoms were relieved from 7 to 0 VAS after treatment. Conclusions: We observed that complex therapy of acupuncture, bee venom aqua - acupuncture, Byeong-geo-tang(竝祛湯 ; bing qu tang) redused symptoms of the patient. We expect this clinical report may be helpful to rheumatoid arthritis treatment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.564-571
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• 2003

현대 산업사회는 첨단 산업기술의 발전으로 많은 생산시설이 자동화되고, 작업형태 또한 생산성을 높이기 위한 택트타임(tact time) 분석으로 작업이 더욱 세분화되고 있으며, 이로 인해 작업자의 특정 신체부위만 집중적으로 사용하는 단순 반복작업이 크게 증가하고 있다. 그 결과 작업자가 어깨, 허리, 손목 등에 통증을 호소하는 근골격계질환이 계속 증가하는 추세에 있다. 노동부 자료[1]에 의하면 근골격계질환자 수가 2000년 1,009명, 2001년 1,598명이고 2002년 상반기만 1,069명으로 점차 증가 추세를 보이고 있으며, 2002년 한해 동안만 ○○중공업 253명, ○○조선 158명, ○○자동차 78명의 근골격계질환자가 발생하여 산업재해 판정을 받음으로써, 이로 인한 노동력 상실 및 막대한 비용 손실로 인해 심각한 사회적인 문제로 대두되고 있다[2].(중략)

• 월간산업보건
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• s.175
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• pp.24-28
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• 2002

우리나라에서 근골격계 질환으로 인한 업무상 질병 인정 건수가 매년 급격히 늘고 있다. 근골격계 질환이란 생산직과 사무직에서 단순반복작업으로 인하여 목, 어깨, 팔꿈치, 손목, 손 등의 근육, 건, 신경 등 주변조직에 스트레스가 누적되면서 손상을 입혀 만성적 통증이나 감각이상 등을 나타내는 질환으로,2001년에는 산재로 승인된 질환자 수가 1,598명으로 전년보다 58%가 증가하는 등 우리나라에서 중요한 직업병의 하나로 자리매김하고 있다. 그러나 우리나라에서는 재해판정기준은 있으나 구체적인 인정요건에 대한 지침이 정립되지 않고 있어 업무상 질병으로 인정할 때 어떻게 판단하여야 하는지에 대한 문제가 심각해질 우려가 있다. 따라서 본고에서는 한국, 일본, 미국의 업무상 질병 인정기준을 비교하고 그중에서 작업관련성에 대한 각국의 ㅊ차이를 비교함으로서 어떤 문제가 해결되어야 할 것인지를 논하고자 한다.

• 재활복지
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.59-75
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to analyze sports injuries in athletes with disabilities during the 2015 National Games in Korea. We conducted a survey to assess sport injuries in 171 male athletes with disabilities who participated in this study. The shoulder was most frequently injured, followed by the fingers and low back. Contusions were the most common type of injury, and were usually caused by collisions with teammates or contact with equipment. Injuries often occur during enthusiastic play in both competition and practice sessions. Injured athletes are emergently treated with medicated spray and patch application by the head coach. Warm-up and cool-down exercises are recommended to prevent injury, and physical therapy is effective after an injury occurs. Based on these findings, an injury prevention training program and athletic trainers should be provided for athletes with disabilities to ensure appropriate care and rehabilitation.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.1632-1640
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• 2014

This study was conducted to investigate the factors affecting smartphone addiction of university students and to provide the data for developing intervention program of smartphone addiction prevention. The data were collected from 354 university students and analyzed with t-test and multiple regression by using SPSS 18.0 program. The smartphone addiction rate was 27.4%, which the high risk group rate was 6.2% and potential risk group rate was 21.2%. The significant factors of smartphone addiction were gender(${\beta}=0.149$, p<.001), average daily using time in week(${\beta}=0.292$, p=.001), average daily using time in weekend(${\beta}=0.390$, p<.001), wrist pain in using smartphone(${\beta}=0.148$, p<.001), accident in using smartphone(${\beta}=0.133$, p=.002), sociality(${\beta}=-0.099$, p=.029), impulsiveness(${\beta}=0.211$, p<.001), SNS addiction(${\beta}=0.376$, p<.001). And these factors explained 43.3% of the variance in smartphone addiction. In conclusion, the results from this study indicated a need to develop the intervention program to prevent smartphone addiction considering these factors affecting smartphone addiction.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.65-69
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• 2009

Purpose: Recently incidence of VDT syndrome has gradually increased as extensive use of computers. VDT syndrome reported by VDT workers include musculoskeletal disorder, neuropsychiatric disoders and eye symptoms such as eye strain, tired eyes, irritation and blurred vision. The environmental factors of VDT syndrome include electromagnetic waves, size, brightness and lighting of computer screen, height of a monitor and a worktable, working hours, kind of task, distance between screen and workers, indoor humidity and temperature, indoor air contamination and ventilation. In this study, we investigated the environmental factors related to body symptoms and health effects included in VDT syndrome. Methods: Study subjects were total 120 persons (54 male, 66 female) with age from 19 to 28. We surveyed the body symptoms and physical discomfort when doing an activity in a short distance such as reading book or paper, computer work. The questionnaire included main body symptoms, self-consciousness symptoms of eye, satisfaction of working environment, pain of the wrist when using keyboard and mouse. Results: Most of people (70%) felt physical pain from long time work of computer, paper, electrical apparatus. They mainly complained pain of neck and low back (57.1%), eye (45.2%) and head (31%). With the environmental factors, 78.3% of the subjects complaint pain of eye from inappropriate illumination. Most of the symptoms included 'eye fatigue'(38.3%), 'dryness of eye'(31.9%) and 'blurred vision'(23.7%). Subjects in this study complained discomfort of their chairs and most of them experienced pain in the wrist when using keyboard or mouse. Conclusions: When people use electrical apparatus or work with paper, people would get their eye fatigue and feeling of physical fatigue because of not harmonizing various environmental factors such as light, space, posture, worktable with theirselves. Therefore, workers should develop preventive method such as self-control of adequate break time to avoid fatigue while VDT work. Work environment should be changed to ergonomic design for optimal visual environment to prevent musculoskeletal disorder through constant research.

• Physical Therapy Korea
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.66-75
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of two types of stretching extensor carpi radialis on the visual analog scale (VAS), pressure-pain thresholds (PPTs), grip strength (GS), and strength of wrist extensor (SWE) in patients with lateral epicondylalgia. Sixteen patients with lateral epicondylalgia were recruited for this study and randomly assigned to two groups; the conventional stretching group (CS) and the stretching of proximal functional massage group (PFM); the VAS, PPTs, GS, and SWE were measured before and after the intervention. Over a period of stretching exercises were performed for five minutes per day, five days per week. The paired t-test and Wilcoxon signed-rank test were used to determine the statistical differences in the VAS, PPTs, GS, and SWE (pre- and post-test). The Independent t-test and Mann-Whitney U test were used to compare the effects of stretching exercises between the CS and PFM groups. The results of this study demonstrated that in the PFM group, the PPTs, GS, and SWE significantly increased, and the VAS decreased (p<.05). In the CS group, the VAS and GS increased significantly after the three-week intervention (p<.05). Pain was decreased and strength (GS and SWE) was increased in the PFM group, compared to the CS group (p<.05). The findings of this study indicate that PFM technique can be applied for decreasing pain and increasing the GS and SWE in patients with lateral epicondylalgia.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.231-236
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• 2006

Rheumatoid arthritis(RA) is an of autoimmune inflammatory systemic disease. It is characterized by uncontrolled proliferation of synovial tissue and a wide array multisystem comorbidities. The disease may involve any joint of the body, but often statrs in the peripheral joints. It was reported that more than 50% of RA patients exhibit clinical involvement of TMJ. This report is a case report of dental management and progression for 16 months in patients who had severe bony change in TMJ involved rheumatoid arthritis Dental management was included palliative treatment such as interocclusal splints, physical therapy, mouth opening exercise. Although it was progressed rapidly osteolytic bone change during follow-up, no more advanced occulsal change and improved symptom and jaw motion. Further investigations about rule of dentistry in TMJ involvement in RA maybe needed.