• Title/Summary/Keyword: Elderly rehabilitation

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Development of Elderly Human Model and Infrastructural Technologies for the Medical Device Industry in Treatment and Rehabilitation of Spinal Disease (노인성 척추 질환 치료/재활을 위한 노령 인체 모델 및 의료기기 제품화 기반 기술 개발)

  • Seo, Dong-Min;Sung, Won-Kyung;Lee, Sang-Ho;Cho, Kum-Won;Kim, Yoon-Hyuk
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.255-256
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    • 2011
  • 우리 사회의 고령화가 지속됨에 따라 퇴행성 척추 질환을 가진 고령 인구가 증가하고 있다. 노인성 척추 질환은 일상생활을 불가능하게 하며, 경제활동을 어렵게 하여 결과적으로는 고령자 삶의 질을 훼손시킨다. 또한, 이 질환은 개별 환자에 최적화된 척추의 수술 및 재활 치료 방법이 요구된다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 노인성 척추 질환에 대한 효과적 대응을 위해 IT 기반의 경제적/과학적 해결 방안을 제시하는 "노인성 척추 질환 치료/재활을 위한 노령 인체 모델 및 의료기기 제품화 기반 기술"에 대해 소개한다.

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A Strategy of the Home Visiting Physical Therapy (가정 방문 물리치료의 전략)

  • Bae Sung-soo
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.180-189
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study was to emphasize the strategy of the home visiting physical therapy for elderly patients who have joint and musculoskeletal problems, disabled person who staying in home and early discharged person who staying in home with replacement of artificial hip joint and central nerve system problems with CP, CVA, SCI etc. Home visiting physical therapist can provide evaluation and diagnosis, treatment with their special knowledge and techniques, treatment council and education for the patients and family member and refer the patients to other specialist. Home visiting physical therapy can expects that patients will have better treatment with emotionally, economically and for long term care patients.

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Care of Degeneration Disease with Aging (노령화와 관련된 퇴행성 질환의 관리)

  • Lee Han-Suk;Lee Jin-Hee;Goo Bong-Oh
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.323-333
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    • 2002
  • Number of elderly, above 65 years old are 3,384,576 in korea on AD2000. Half of them will be have an experiencing in fall and decreasing of balance performance from musculoskeletal problems. Muscle strengthening exercise, empty hand gymnastics, gait training, rhythmic gymnastics are improved increasing of balance performance and prevent fall. Regular exercise program will make improve the balance performance and prevent fall. The exercise program have to perform continually that intensity and frequency will be once in day or 3-4 times in a week. Intensity and frequency of the exercise program start with low intensity and low frequency and gradually increasing of the intensity and frequency.

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A Case Report of the Poststroke Seizure (뇌졸중 후유증으로 나타나는 간질환자 치험 1례)

  • Yi, Jung-Ho
    • The Journal of Churna Manual Medicine for Spine and Nerves
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.27-33
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    • 2006
  • Objectives : This report is about a case of a patient who improvement in general condition, Infection and dysphagia after poststroke seizure. Methods : We observed a patiet who received treatment in hospital because of stroke sequelae. Her symptoms were left hemiplegia, right hemiparesis, dysphagia, dyspnea, sputum and general weakness, and acupunture and herb medicine were applied. Results : Stroke is the most common cause of seizures in the elderly. The impact of late onset GTC(generalized tonic-clonic) seizures is associated with worse outcomes. Conclusion : The patient of this case was attacked by intracerebal hemorrhage, cerebaral infarction and GTC seizures. Since then her neurologic disorder was progressed. As the treatments of the patient, herb medication and acupuncture therapy were applied and she got a wide improvement of dysphagia, dyspnea, URI sign and general condition.

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Correlation Analysis between Cognitive function and Praxis tasks in the Elderly

  • Shin, Su-Jung
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.51-56
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study was to identify differences in cognitive function according to the presence or absence of apraxia and the tasks most relevant to the cognitive function among the various types of tasks in the apraxia test. The subjects were 42 community residents who participated in a cognitive rehabilitation program related to dementia in a Chungbuk area. MMSE-K and BCoS(Birmingham Cognitive Screen) apraxia test were administered to all subjects. The apraxia test includes three types of tasks, gesture production tasks that make meaningful movements according to verbal instructions, gesture recognition tasks that display behavior after make sense of meanings, and meaningless imitation task. Apraxia group(n=30, MMSE-K mean score: 25) showed lower cognitive function than group without apraxia(n=12, MMSE-K mean score: 28). All tasks in the apraxia test showed a significant correlation with cognitive function, but the meaningless imitation task had a negligible correlation. The apraxia test is a good way to assess cognitive function, and it may be more effective to use meaningful behavior to replace cognitive testing.

The Study of Exploration of the User & the Physical Components of Outpatients' Waiting Areas in General Hospital (인간 행위분석을 통한 종합병원 외래환자 대기실에 관한 연구)

  • 이성훈
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • no.9
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    • pp.18-23
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    • 1996
  • Among the building types in which behavioral issues play, the largest role are institutional environments. Such setting share a number of important characteristics ; they serve specific population (e.g. the ill, the elderly , '||'&'||' inmates) : they are directed toward specific social behavioral objectives(e.g medical care, education , '||'&'||' rehabilitation); and they are "Total institution" in which residents spend all of there time. The basic concepts and theories of environment-behavior studies are of direct relevance in understanding such social institutions. In this study, I have examined the relationships between waiting and the specific conditions of the hospital experience. More specifically, this is a study of visitors (outpatient) within the context of the hospital , and the physical setting designated for their use in the outpatient waiting room. Environment behavior studies, with its commitment to individual behavior and the physical environment might well be a particularly way by which a study of waiting rooms can demonstrate the power of this approach and its integrative among disciplines.

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The role of myokine Irisin on bone metabolism

  • Lee, Jin-Wook;Kim, Chan-Yang
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.24 no.9
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    • pp.97-102
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    • 2019
  • Several studies have recently demonstrated that skeletal muscle is an endocrine organ releasing and expressing myokines acting in an endocrine or paracrine manner. Irisin is a hormene-like myokine induced after physical exercise by muscle fibers. It was primarily recognized as a molecule able to advance the "browning response" in white adipose tissue, however, it has been recetly identified that irisin also has a fundamental role in the control of bone mass. We study evidence for its possible skeletal effects, including the fundamental role that irisin is involved in the control of bone mass, with beneficial effects on geometry and cortical mineral density. As loss of muscle mass and bone density occurs with immobility, metabolic disease and aging, future studies researching the efficacy of irisin in reversing muscle wasting and restoring bone would be important to proving irisin as a molecule that combines helpful effects for treating muscular atrophy and osteoporosis in elderly people.

Functional Recovery Program after Lumbar Spinal Fusion (요추 유합술 후 기능 회복 치료법)

  • Kang, Taewook;Park, Si Young;Lee, Soon Hyuck
    • Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
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    • v.55 no.3
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    • pp.222-228
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    • 2020
  • As the elderly population increases, the incidence of lumbar fusion is increasing, and there has been increasing interest in rapid rehabilitation and functional recovery after surgery. Enhanced recovery after surgery program and multimodal pain control methods can reduce the complications and allow rapid recovery. Various methods have been used to increase the fusion.

Research on the Need Assessment Tool for the Korean Elderly at Home Focused on their Desires Based (한국 재가노인의 욕구중심 사정도구 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Kirn, Young sook;Jung, Kook in;Park, So rah
    • 한국노년학
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.459-472
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    • 2007
  • This research has its purpose of developing a tool to assess the needs of the Korean elderly at home population and to provide adequate services by evaluating their physical, psychological, and socio-environmental aspects. This developed tool is composed of two hundred questions and has the advantage of combined physical, psychological and social environmental situation assessment of the elderly at home. The tool also contains not only the objective view of the professionals, but also the subjective appeals of the elderly at home population so that it can reflect their substantial desires. The assessment tool was developed over 21 months from July, 2004 to March, 2006 and this period can be divided into three different stages. In the first stage, collecting of questions for the desire-focused assessment of the elderly by literature investigation and researching foreign source materials was carried out, and this ultimately developed assessment tool was applied to the long-term care insurance pilot project in the second stage. In this process, we revised some insufficiencies of this tool after we applied to elderly of 250 from the pilot project and other 200 elderly from this research team. For the last stage, the tool was completed by using inquiries of the focused group and the group of professionals to ensure its reliability and validity. In the process of developing the tool, the total of 200 questions under 13 subcategories was selected. The 13 subcategories are basic information, subjective appeals, information of the main helper, use of services, house environment, condition of health, condition of rehabilitation, daily living(ADL, IADL, defecation, assistance), social maintenance, behavioral disability, medical health, living habits, and strength. This tool is on the purpose to assess thoroughly the desires that the elderly at home population has and to provide the best service they need.