2006 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 213-220
Regenerative medicine is strongly expected to play an important role as an epoc making medical therapy in the 21th century. Although it is only for 6-7 years since regenerative medicine has been universally recognized as a new medical therapy, various research and clinical application of regenerative medicine including almost all of the tissues and organs in the body has been much more widely and rapidly extended than that was expected before in our country. Concomitantly considerable numbers of venture companies for regenerative medicine have been founded. There are two important keys for establishment of a true progress of regenerative medicine in our country; one is how to link an original research results to a clinical application, the other is how to get a social consensus for regenerative medicine. In this paper, a physical therapy has firstly been included and classified as one of therapeutic approaches for regenerative medicine. It is sincerely desired that regenerative medicine will bring a dream like therapy and contribute a lots to a health, welfare and happiness of human beings, providing an improvement of patient's symptoms, a prevention of a disease progress, medical treatment, and an improvement of quality of life.
