医療施設内の水治療法室における機器と室面積との関係に関する調査・研究

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the characters of the hydrotherapy room in medical facilities. We sent the questionnaire about the use condition, room area, establishment of machines and so on. The numbers of questionnaires we got were 261. The results of this study are summarized as follows. 1. 70 percent of the hydrotherapy rooms have an area less than 60 m^2. The number of area more than 100 m^2 is a few and they were built mostly before 1963. 2. The number of physical therapists and maintenance costs influence the selection of hydrotherapy machines. 3. By classifying type of establishment machines, we classified hydrotherapy room into seven categories. The Overall type and the partial body bath type are major type out of seven categories.