How Do Students of Physical and Occupational Therapy Understand the Correlation of the Basic Movements with Activities of Daily Living?

Abstract

[Purpose] The aim of the present study was to investigate how students attending a physical and occupational therapy school think about the relations between the basic movements and activities of daily living (ADL) with knee dysfunction. [Subjects and Methods] The participants were 95 students attending a physical and occupational therapy school. In order to reveal the relations between the basic movements and ADL, we conducted a survey using a self-made questionnaire comprising items selected from assessments of knee dysfunction. [Results] Over 80% of the students selected the three basic movements (gait and standing, standing-up and sitting-down, squatting) as factors which could be related to ADL. [Conclusion] In the case of knee dysfunction, the students might select standing movement and squatting as the basic movements related to ADL.