대한예방한의학회지 (Journal of Society of Preventive Korean Medicine)
- 제12권3호
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- Pages.129-139
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- 2008
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- 1226-7066(pISSN)
수중운동이 무릎퇴행성관절염 여성 환자에 미치는 영향
The Effect of Aqua Exercise on Female Patients with Knee Degenerative Arthritis
- Park, Jin-Sik (Daegu Suseong-gu Public Health Center) ;
- Yoo, Wang-Keun (Graduate School of Public Health, Daegu Hanny University) ;
- Jung, Hyun-Suk (Graduate School of Public Health, Daegu Hanny University) ;
- Han, Jong-Man (Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Gyeongsang National University) ;
- Yang, Kyung-Han (Department of Occupational Therapy, Sung Duk College)
- 발행 : 2008.12.31
초록
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of aqua exercise on women 50 years of age or older with knee degenerative arthritis, and then examining the therapeutic value of aqua exercise in degenerative arthritis of the knee. The subjects of the study were 115 residents 50 years of age or older who had been diagnosed as degenerative arthritis of the knee by doctors from medical institutions and applied for the aqua exercise program in the Public Health Care Center in Suseong-gu in 2006 and 2007. Experiments were conducted to all the subjects with the application of the 8-week aqua exercise program (2 times a week, 50 minutes a time), designed in the study, and the differences before and after the aqua exercise were compared through questionnaires for measuring the state of the body such as the knee extension angles, weight, body fat, and abdominal obesity. The data was analyzed by t-test and the Wilcoxon method through SPSS 14.0 and the statistical significance level