The Japanese Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
Online ISSN : 1880-778X
Print ISSN : 0034-351X
Some Psychological Aspects of Rehabilitation in Orthopaedic Surgery
Shinichiro TAKAGUCHI
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Volume 1 (1964) Issue 2 Pages 89-92

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Abstract

Psychological background in rehabilitation of the patients at our department was surveyed by paper questionnaire method, those who have shown psychological problems were 40-53%, further in the research of comparison among kinds of diseases, there were two groups of having prominent problems, i. e. bone tuberculosis and rheumatoid arthritis. There were also 10-20% mentioning psychosomatic reactions in broad sense, and other group was analysed by a case study in order to learn the psychosomatic diseases. Standing at the point of view that rehabilitation is to approach comprehensively the patients for returning to their own communities, the author have organized the thought of rehabilitation. As for the core of psychological support, its techniques should be taken from clinical psychology and psychosomatic medicine; therefore on the psychological treatment the author have researched the basic possible items.

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