An Inquiry of the Situation and the Problems of Japanese Physiotherapy from the Concequence of the Research
10.3777/jjsam.32.2_65
- VernacularTitle:アンケート調査にみる理療科療法の現状と課題
- Author:
Masao SUZUKI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
1982;32(2):65-73
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
Japanese Physiotherapy (JPT) is a kind of therapy that is based upon the Oriental medical art —as we know as acupuncture, moxibustion and anma— and is combined with the physical therapy of the western medical art as an organic whole. JPT has been studied and developed chiefly in the JPT course in schools for the blind.
In order to make clear the popularity of JPT and its movement of the demand, I made a questionnaire about JPT and its fundamental therapy —acupuncture, moxibustion and anma— bounding the occupation and area of the object. See the following list;
a. the appriciation of the effect of JPT.
b. the rate at which the adaptation disease arises and its cause.
c. the existence of the experience of having the therapy and the demand of having the therapy once more.
d. the better place of having the therapy.
e. the desirable rate at which you have to pay for the care.
f. the problems when you have the therapy.
This is the main points of the investigation.
1. Method:
1) Object; teachers and bus drivers in Shizuoka prefecture.
2) Way; doring out questionnaire papers and gathering them.
2. Results
1) We handed out 2119 papers and gathered 1827 answers.
(Its effective rate is 86%.)
2) The 70-80% of the answerer admitted the effect of the therapy.
3) The adaptation disease of JPT is firmly connected with the occupations of the patients.
4) In comparison with the rate of the patients who have experienced the therapy, the rate of the patients who want to have the therapy for their health is not so high. But many of the patients say that they want to have the therapy once or more times.
5) The most offensive problem, when the patients are to have the therapy, is the high rate of the patients' contribution paid for the care. The second problem is that the patients have anxiety about the contents and methods of the therapy.
3. Problems from now on
1) The early realization of cutting down the rate of the patients' contribution paid for the care.
2) Making public relations that JPT is good for the early recovery from fatigure and the promotion of health and the prevention of disease.
3) The establishment of JPT as Industrial Medicine.
