• Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Science
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.311-319
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• 2000

This study was to measure whether single axis foot or the SACH foot applied to below-knee amputation patients would bring positive changes to the patients' cardiopulmonary function, and help them to overcome their disability. The experiment took place at Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan, from July 20th to November 20th, 1999 with 10 below-knee amputation patients. The patients were asked to equip single axis foot and SACH foot by turns and lead them to walk on a treadmill which was designed to increase its steep slope. Patients heart rate and blood pressure were recorded before and after their walking, The heart rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure of the patients who were equipped with, either SACH foot or single axis foot, have been increased with as the slant becoming steeper. The heart rates during the experiment did not show relevant changes according to the kind of foot used and the gradient, but the changes occurred before and after the walking(p=0.0001), The similar result of systolic blood pressure was found during the waking(p=0.01). Below-knee amputation patients are expected to walk and perform the routines better, no matter what type of foot is used, as long as they wear an artificial foot properly and taking features of foot product into consideration

• The Journal of Korean society of community based occupational therapy
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.79-89
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• 2011

The number of the disabled person had been increased for the industrial accident and the environmental pollution. Especially, developmental disability has the high prevalence rate between 5% and 10% of the whole children. The children with a developmental disability can be treated by the physical therapy, the occupational therapy, the psychology therapy, speech therapy, and art therapy. Visual preception which is function to recognize the external environment through the optic organ could be related to most behaviors on the everyday life. But because the children with disability could not develop the visual-preception enough, they came to have difficulties in executing daily life project. For this reason, it is most important to understand the estimation and the cure on the visual-preception in the pediatric occupational therapy. To improve the visual-preception power, we have many kind of methods including sensory integration, training program for the visual-perception and art-craft program. Particularly, the art-craft which is the representative activity for making something by hands, can be applied to anyone. As the study on the brain has been activated, it was proved that handicraft actives could have an good effect on the brain function and using brain. When the fine motor exercise and more delicate and accurate motion were carried, these motions need the essential help of the visual-perception. So it could be expected that using the repetitive hand function by art-craft makes the brain function improve, when a activity that needs a fine motor exercise and more delicate, accurate motion was carried, It also indicates that the art-craft program has a clear treatment value. Though the intervention between visual-perception development and visual-perception disability have a majority in the field of occupational therapy, there is a few study yet. Therefore, this study tried to look back on the necessity of applying the art-craft program to the children with disability as the prestudy for preliminary validity of the master's thesis.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.17 no.29
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• pp.47-61
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• 1994

Today, we can see the more serious industrial accidents than in the past according to the high growth rate of industrial society. Therefore, from the corporate as well as the human viewpoint it pays to have workers adequately trained and safety - oriented. The cost of accidents is high in terms of medical insurance costs lost time on the job, legal fees for court cases, workers' compensation, disability insurance, and unemployment compensation. The cost of preventing occupational accidents or illnesses is much less then the cost of treatment or workers' compensation. In this study, we investigate the situations of industrial accidents and safety control of 277 coporates in Busan, analyze the causes of accidents and propose the countermeasures to each of causes.

• Journal of Haehwa Medicine
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.201-205
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• 2006

Vulvodynia is the term used to describe unexplained vulvar pain, sexual dysfunction, and the resultant psychological disability. Vulvodynia may cause physical disabilities, psychological or emotional distress, sexual dysfunction and limitation of daily activities. But its etiologies and treatments are not defined yet. In vulvodynia, the first method of treatment is conservative treatment. surgery is carried out on patients who have failed consevative therapy. In conservative therapy, the rate of improvements is low, 30-40%Surgical procedures are effective in almost patients, but the efficacy is not known in patients with the riskiness. This study is designed to find best way of evaluation about the vulvodynia.

• Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.97-100
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• 2005

The handicapped as a member of a society should possess the same opportunity of a perfect participation in public affairs and an equal opportunity in parity of treatment. All sorts of physical and social barriers surrounding the handicapped who can not having a impairment and disability give a less chance to have a share in their society. Therefore, this discrimination barriers must be phased off not only by handicapped but also by normal social members so as to perfect and free access to movement, all of social institution and social activities. Therefor, this paper provides a basic data which conducts investigation and analysis on the outdoor access environment for the handicapped's easy access to public building or facilities. It would be most import rules to make a decision between improvement rate and object for public building or public facilities.

• Journal of Acupuncture Research
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.50-54
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• 2019

The purpose of this case study is to examine the effects of Korean traditional medicine in the postoperative treatment of proximal humeral fracture. The patient with postoperative pain following proximal humeral fracture surgery was treated with Korean traditional medicine including acupuncture cupping therapy and herbal medicine in hospital for 67 days. The effects of the treatment were evaluated using the Numerical Rate Scale (NRS), Range Of Motion (ROM), and Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI). As a result of treatment, the NRS score was reduced from 7 to 3, the ROM was improved (on average by 21%), SPADI was reduced from 93 to 25.9. This study proposes that Korean traditional medicine may be effective in postoperative treatment for proximal humeral fracture.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• v.66 no.3
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• pp.258-262
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• 2023

Germinal matrix-intraventricular hemorrhage (GM-IVH) is among the devastating neurological complications with mortality and neurodevelopmental disability rates ranging from 14.7% to 44.7% in preterm infants. The medical techniques have improved throughout the years, as the morbidity-free survival rate of very-low-birth-weight infants has increased; however, the neonatal and long-term morbidity rates have not significantly improved. To this date, there is no strong evidence on pharmacological management on GM-IVH, due to the limitation of well-designed randomized controlled studies. However, recombinant human erythropoietin administration in preterm infants seems to be the only effective pharmacological management in limited situations. Hence, further high-quality collaborative research studies are warranted in the future to ensure better outcomes among preterm infants with GM-IVH.

• Journal of Korean Clinical Health Science
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.126-132
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• 2014

Purpose. Because traditional statistics approach had limitations in learning future forecasting and major factors causing occupational injuries in each industry, this paper develops a model forecasting and evaluating occupational injury rate by using a system dynamics model through the analysis of the industry injury statistics and the project for industry injury prevention. Method. The model of this paper consists of 12 total models such as a model of employees, of industrial disaster victims, of injury rate, etc.; In the analysis of firm size, it is classified and developed according to 12 groups on the basis of the number of employees, and in the analysis of industrial classification, it is done according to 10 total business fields such as manufacturing business, construction one, etc. Results. This paper suggests the methodology which forecasts industry injury rate by business field and size on the basis of developed model, and evaluates an industry injury prevention project from various angles. Conclusions. This paper deduced problem through the analysis of an industry injury by business fields and a comparative analysis of foreign cases, and analyzed to affect industry injury prevention by industry. And it also analyzed actual condition of industry injury, and did a difference in the level of safety consciousness according to the general characteristics of workers and occupational safety and health education related characteristics. In result, this paper suggests that analyzing occupational injury related factors, a safety budgetary allocation, and industry injury related factors can reduce illness costs such as employees' injury and medical care, and also assist cost for a disability.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.417-424
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• 2015

The research of occupational injury for safety and health is a comparatively recent occurrence. As labor activities took place regarding to employee concerns in industrial uprising, human resources health was tried to enhanced as a labor safety subject. Noticing that traditional statistics approach has limitations in learning future forecasting and major factors causing occupational injuries in each industry, Korean Government initiated a quantitative systematic simulation model project to analyze how the annual injury rate has been dropped and stays in a level for recent years. From this motivation and the project, system dynamics models have been developed to explain the mechanisms for reducing annual injury rate, and the mechanisms quantitatively. The main cause effects for the reduction of annual injury rate were due to the government driven investment on safety facilities. In overall viewpoint the gain achievable from these efforts has been reached a saturated level. However, it could reduce the annual injury rate if you chose the industry and size carefully. The model for forecasting, major injury factors, safety budget and allocation are introduced and analyzed, and Analyzing occupational injury related factors can also reduce employee injury and disease related costs, including medical care, quit, and disability assistance costs.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.210-216
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• 2000

Objectives : Head injury is one of the common causes of death in the industrialized countries, and it is a common cause of subarachnoid hemorrhage. Recently, traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage(TSAH) has been considered as a major prognostic factor. Some suggested that a certain vasodilating agent may be effective to treat or prevent the secondary brain injury due to vasospasm from TSAH. The role of TSAH is not yet fully solved. The prognosis and clinical significance of the TSAH was evaluated. Methods : A retrospective study was performed. A total of 573 consecutive patients with head injury admitted to our institute from January 1996 to December 1997 were examined with respect to outcome and clinical features. In all patients, computerized tomographic scanning was done within 2 days after the injury. Results : TSAH was found in 68 patients(11.9%). The outcome at discharge of the patients without TSAH was favorable(good recovery and moderate disability) in 84.8%, unfavorable(severe disability and vegetative state) in 8.6%, and the mortality rate 6.7%. However, the outcome was favorable in 51.5%, unfavorable in 20.6%, and the mortality rate 27.9% in patients with TSAH. Although the outcome of the patients with thick TSAH was worse than that of the patients with scanty TSAH, the difference was not statistically significant. The difference of the outcome in patients with TSAH according to the location also lacked statistical significance. TSAH was more common in patients with age of 40 years or more, and patients with low Glasgow coma scores. Patients with TSAH had abnormal pupillary responses, diffuse axonal injuries, intubations and operative interventions more frequently than patients without TSAH. Conclusion : These results strongly suggest that the TSAH per se did not worsen the prognosis. However, it represented the injury to be more severe.