立ち上がり動作における胸椎の運動に着目し安定性向上を認めた脳挫傷の症例

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The patient was a woman in her 80s with a diagnosis of cerebral contusion. She had difficulty with smooth the buttocks release and showed a decrease in stability when getting up from the bed. Detailed observation of the flexion phase to the buttocks release phase revealed that the thoracic spine remained flexed just before the buttocks release phase, and no ext ension occurred. There were few previous studies on the thoracic spine in standing-up motions, and it was difficult to clarify the functional impairment. Therefore, we conducted some detailed examinations of spinal motion during the flexion phase in normal subjects. The results showed that physiotherapy for the longissimus longus muscle resulted in thoracic extension just before the buttocks release, which enabled a smooth the buttocks release and improved the stability.