• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.299-304
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to understand the effect of physical therapist's vocational consciousness and emotional labor on organizational performance. The subjects of this study are physical therapists working in a total of 8 hospitals in Seoul from May 25, 2019 to June 30, 2019: 2 private hospitals, 2 semi-general hospitals, 2 general hospitals, and 2 university hospitals. It was conducted with 137 people. For the analysis, the SPSS program was used, frequency analysis, reliability analysis, and correlation analysis were performed, and a regression analysis was performed on the causal relationship between variables. First, as a result of examining the effect of the physical therapist's vocational consciousness on organizational performance, the higher the vocational consciousness factor, the higher the organizational performance, which means that it has a positive and significant effect on organizational performance. Second, as a result of examining the effect of physical therapist's emotional labor on organizational performance, it was found that the surface behavior factor, a sub-factor of emotional labor, had an effect on organizational performance. On the other hand, the factors of inner behavior were found to have no significant effect on organizational performance. This means that the higher the vocational consciousness perceived by the physical therapist, the higher the organizational performance, and the higher the surface behavior of emotional labor, the lower the organizational performance. This study is considered to be the basic data for preparing a plan to improve the organizational performance of physical therapists.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.9-19
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• 1995

Therapist have many troubles in the treatment of the patients who have a disorder in Centural Nerve System. It is the role of therapist that is to discriminate and control tone in the patients. In the case of hypertonus to be with hypotonus it is needed for therapist to inhibite the tonus properly without being influenced from the associated reaction. In this study the therapeutic control of the hypertonus and hypotonus through the Bobath approach is presented in detail. It is suggested that the holistic approach using the plasticity of patients base on the Bobath concept is to be used in the improvement of activities and functions of individual patients.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.205-212
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to analyze the factors of health services that satisfy chronic musculoskeletal patients in the northern part of Gyeong-buk, South Korea. One hundred and seven chronic musculoskeletal patients who had visited a clinic in Gyeong-buk were recruited for this study. The data were collected through a questionnaire survey administered from May 7 to June 6, 2012. The collected data were analyzed by multiple regression analysis. The major findings of this research are as follows. The chronic musculoskeletal patients' satisfaction was determined by the "physical therapist's explanation," "registration process," "home exercise," "respect from staff," and whether the physical therapist and staff "listened to concerns." The chronic musculoskeletal patients' likely to revisit is strongly related to "physical therapist's explanation," "registration process," and "up-to-date equipment." Therefore, it is very important for clinics to improve the quality of the "physical therapist's explanation," "registration process," "respect from staff," "informed consent," "up-to-date equipment," and "home exercise." Furthermore, it is expected that the outcomes of this study will contribute to the customer satisfaction of chronic musculoskeletal patients in clinics.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.119-124
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• 2009

Purpose: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) lifting equation (NLE) is a useful tool to ergonomically analyze a workload. The NLE has high reliability and it can assess tasks by analyzing the work process. The purpose of this case study was to try using the NLE to analyze the workload of transferring patients by physical therapists in the hospital setting. Methods: We observed a physical therapist (PT) transferring patients from a wheelchair to a tilt table and a therapeutic table in one day. Two types of patient transferring methods were evaluated; (1) the manual single person method of stand, pivot and transfer, and (2) manual two person lifting under the thigh and grasping the waist for totally dependent patients. Results: The NIOSH lifting indexes of a person grasping the waist during the manual two person lifting were 5.52~4.48 according to the patient's weight. The NIOSH lifting indexes were 3.34 and 4.48 for the tasks performed by the manual single person method. Conclusion: Because transferring patients is not done very frequently, patients transferring tasks by a PT are not included as one of the musculoskeletal disorder related risky work criteria of the Korea Ministry of Labor. But the NIOSH lifting indexes of a person grasping the waist during the manual two person lifting and the manual single person method were over the NIOSH recommended weight limit threshold.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.193-201
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• 2021

Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare dementia awareness among physiotherapists and occupational therapists who treat dementia patients and provide opportunities to increase dementia awareness as medical technicians, expand the scope of treatment, and enhance professionalism. Methods: An online survey was conducted from January 8th to 19th, 2021 for physical therapists who are members of the Korean Physical Therapist Association and Occupational therapists who are members of the Korean Occupational Therapists Association. The collected data were analyzed using the SPSS 21.0 program. To verify the difference in the awareness of dementia among medical technicians, a t-test was performed, and the chi-square test was used to analyze the difference in the responses for each question. Results: In this study, occupational therapists had a significantly higher average and standard deviation than physical therapists. Occupational therapists also had a significantly higher level of dementia awareness, including dementia symptom-related, dementia disease-related, and dementia therapy knowledge. Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that various educational initiatives and systems should be developed to help medical professionals increase their awareness and interest on dementia as a community, which can enable them to move in the same treatment direction with a common goal.

• The Journal of Korean Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapy
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.77-86
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• 2001

The main purpose of this article is to make a new physical therapy program for disabled students in department physical therapy. From 1963 to 2001, education schools which has department physical therapy is 34 colleges or universities, graduate students is 2,000 persons. In order to competition non-disabled students, we need a strategic plan for specialize of disabled person in physical therapy at college. Therefore our study suggest a new physical therapy program for disabled students ; that is educated and trained student intensively to be a specialized physical therapist by disability pattern in college. A sort of specialized physical therapist are in fields of orthopedic manual therapy, massage and home physical therapy.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.127-132
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• 1998

The prime purpose of this study was to analyse the increasing of physical therapists and general hospitals (Medical institution has been opened Dept. of Physical Therapy) in West Kyoungnam Provinces. Second is the discussing about newly propulsed Dept. of Physical Therapy of college's foundation in West Kyoungnam area. Based on the research results, the following considerations and guidelines are presented. 1. It must be makes the course of education extended 6years(This is major deepen course) and to establish evening program in University for a physical therapists who have not bachelor's degree. 2. It must be legislation the Public Health Physical Therapist System. 3. It must be prepared the law for independent clinic managed by physical therapist.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.116-128
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• 2002

Physical therapy record what the therapist dose to manage the individual patients case. The rights of the therapist and patients are protected should any question occur in the future regarding the care provided to the patient. Physical therapy note is a method of communicating with the patient's physician, other health care professionals and including other therapists. Abbreviations and symbols are used as a time and space saver while writing physical therapy Progress note. In order to ensure that everyone in the hospital need understand what has been written in the chart by others. Therefore, we need a enactment of physical therapy abbreviations and symbols in Korea. There are 468 abbreviations and symbols. It will be change with development of medical science, physical therapy and culture.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.234-259
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• 2002

Physical therapy record what the therapist dose to manage the individual patients case. The rights of the therapist and patients are protected should any question occur in the future regarding the care provided to the patient. Physical therapy note is a method of communicating with the patient's physician, other health care professionals and including other therapists. Abbreviations and symbols are used as a time and space saver while writing physical therapy progress note. In order to ensure that everyone in the hospital need understand what has been written in the chart by others. Therefore, we need a enactment of physical therapy abbreviations and symbols in Korea. There are 468 abbreviations and symbols. It will be change with development of medical science, physical therapy and culture.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Physical Medicine
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.183-192
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• 2010

Purpose : This study purposes to suggest some basic data for the efficiency of a hospital management by drawing out the efficient ways to manage manpower to professionalism of rehabilitation service. Methods : The study used the questionnaire written by respondents themselves, and conducted the regression analysis on the relationships among the job characteristics, the empowerment and organizational commitment. Rusults : Among job characteristics, the wage was the influential factor on the empowerment(psychological, structural), and the specialty physical therapist license was the factor affecting on the psychological empowerment. Among the psychological empowerment factors, the higher meaning of his/her existence, the lower self-decision level, the higher structural empowerment are, the higher organizational commitment was. Conclusion : There were not identified any significant job characteristics influencing on the organizational commitment. Among the structural empowerment factors, the apply of job performance was the largest factor affecting on the organizational commitment.