Analysis of the Handling Technique on a Rehabilitation Therapist

Abstract

This study examined the feature of the handling for the treatment of the sit-to-stand motion of the patient in the rehabilitation domain and "knacks" that I could suppose from those features. We had four objects; an occupational therapist who has 18 years of experience and a student from a department of occupational therapy as a role of the therapist, and people who assumed a person of virtual single paralysis as a role of a patient. It was suggested the expert made the patient move forward by maintaining a certain distance between the patient and him, and this motion is very important. What supported the characteristic was the coordinative structure of the whole body, which limits the movement of arms and makes lower limbs move more freely. On the other hand, such a physical structure is seen in the characteristic of the martial arts-like physical campaign for ancient Japanese martial arts. Therefore when we compared sit-up exercise of ancient Japanese martial arts and usual one, the distance with a head and each body parts was smaller the first one.