Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury often occurs as a result of knee valgus collapse during landing or pivoting in sports activity. Previous studies reported that the risk of ACL injuries was reduced by jump and balance training, and those training can be effective as the prevention program for the ACL injuries. But those studies often focused on only adult athletes, and there are few studies focused on junior athletes. The purpose of this study is to investigate the pattern of landing movement in junior athletes, and to verify the effect of the prevention program. One-hundred and ten junior basketball players (boys; 61, girls;49, age ranging 12 to 15) were subjected in this study. We measured the knee flexion, valgus angles and jump height during continuous vertical jump. After measuring, they executed a prevention program for 12 weeks. The motion pattern of the knee during jump test were compaired between before and after prevention program. Female athletes showed greater knee valgus angle at initial landing phase and grater maximum knee valgus angle than those of males. As a result of the prevention program, maximum knee valgus angle was significantly decreased in female athletes. The greater angle of knee valgus in female may increase the risk of ACL injuries. Present study suggests that the prevention program is useful for reducing the risk of ACL injury. Increment of jump height in male players after this program might be considered that this training program has also an effect of performance improvement.

The aim of this study was to clarify the experience of recurrent/advanced cancer patients receiving outpatient cancer rehabilitation and evaluate true endpoints of cancer rehabilitation. The study was conducted by semi-structured interviews of 13 recurrent/advanced patients undergoing cancer rehabilitation during cancer chemotherapy. Six categories were extracted: [Finding the physical condition suitable for me] [Being unable to find movements that I can effectively utilize myself] [Being able to continue normal everyday life] [Showing people around me that I can still move] [Having fun actively moving my body] [Gives meaning to my present “living”]. Cancer rehabilitation is considered to give patients with recurrent/advanced cancer a chance to adapt to their present predicament by helping them re-establish the meaning, value, and objective of living. These results suggest that acquiring mastery can be a new endpoint of cancer rehabilitation.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the amount of physical activity, including daily movement, and the factors related to the amount of physical activity undertaken by patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus at an outpatient clinic.Patients and Methods: A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to 111 patients, aged 20 years or older, with type 2 diabetes mellitus, who visited a diabetes outpatient clinic. The amount of physical activity was investigated using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Long Version. Influencing factors were divided into individual attributes (age, sex, and employment status), disease-related factors (body mass index, treatment period, medication usage, insulin usage, symptoms of fatigue, and lethargy), and emotion-related factors (depression and optimism). These were tested using stepwise regression analysis.Results: Daily physical activity was 288 metabolic equivalents of task/minute. The sub-scores by the time of day showed “physical activity within the household” and “physical activity during leisure time” as the highest, with 51 metabolic equivalent of tasks/minute. Employment status, medication usage, and depression status were found to have a significant influence and explained 17.9% of the distribution of the entire model.Conclusion: The results suggest that the amount of daily physical activity among non-working patients should increase. Moreover, we highlight the need to provide diabetes education from the early treatment stages and the importance of early detection and care of patients’ psychological needs.