Randomized Control Test of Patient's Body Situation by Introducing Leg Motivative Exercise

Abstract

The main objective of this health care facility, which focuses on the care of elderly people, is to enable the disabled elderly to return home. To achieve this, we are rehabilitating in and out patients to assist them in acquiring the ability to do so. Our main method is the rehabilitation with self-action or assistive exercises. At the introduction of the motivative exercise, we made two groups, one with the motivative exercise and the other without, to evaluate the effect. The motivative exercise we are introducing at this time is a kind of rehabilitation by self-exercise. The subject performs these exercises using devices which make bilateral movement for both legs in order to make the affected side leg active by the movement of the unaffected side. Since the bilateral movement exercise was reported to affect brain function, we report the evaluation of brain function (fNIRS) with optical topography system with function of legs.