Dear fellows and friends, The International Biophilia Rehabilitation Conference (IBRC 2011) has reached to its 9th Edition - that will be held on 29-30th of September, in Warsaw, Poland. According to the international visibility and recognition of some endeavors of the actual Romanian Rehabilitation school of and representatives - especially in the field of NeuroRehabilitation, but not only - I have been honored by the invitation of the Founder and President of the International Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy, Prof. Taki Takizawa, from Japan, to participate to and to co-organize an International Workshop on Rehabilitation, to be held in Bucharest, Romania, on the 25th of September, 2011 - just previous to the onset of IBRC and comprising distinguished speakers, including with consistent activity within the Biophilia Academy and its international meetings.

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We chose Romania as the field work place by reason of well known as an anti-aging people's country and fascinated by the rows of houses which left the medieval image. We can hold the WORKSHOP, BIOPHILIA 2011, Bucharest in such a beautiful country, as a workshop of the 9th International Biophilia Rehabilitation Conference, in Warsaw, Poland (IBRC2001) by occasion of there is support of the Romanian Tourist Office - Tokyo, the Ministry for Regional Development and Tourism and cooperation of prominent professor, Prof. GELU ONOSE, MD, and PhD., Head of the M6 Chair, at the (State) University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila", in Bucharest. We obtained the certificate of appreciation from the honorable Petre Stoian, Romania Charged' Affaires a.i. in Japan and the greeting letter from the honorable Natsuo Amemiya, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan in Romania to hold this workshop.We deeply appreciate to and are proud of the ability to introduce to you both of them.

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It is great pleasure to extend this greeting in holding of “The Workshop Biophilia 2011".

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International Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy President Taki TAKIZAWA Shigeo (Chair of the WORKSHOP "BIOPHILIA 2011") The International Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy holds the international conference in many countries, and contributes to the improvement of people's welfare through progress in rehabilitation medicine. The activity for the functional recovery of advanced-age disabled persons is appreciated by the governments of each country.

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Prof. GELU ONOSE, MD, PhD, Co-Organizer/Chair of the Workshop The (State) University of Medicine and Pharmacy /Carol Davila" The Romanian Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism welcomes and appreciates the organization and the ongoing of this important scientific event, in the context of our institution's strategy regarding the development of Health Tourism. This aims a direct and sustained implication towards the quality enhancement of the related services for prevention/ fitness maintenance, treatment and rehabilitation.

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Study Design: Clinical survey and interviews/ correspondence within long term post-trial follow-up, on 9 chronic, post spinal cord injury tetraplegics. Objective: To assess efficiency of the use of an Electroencephalography-based Brain Computer Interface (EEG-BCI) for reaching/ grasping assistance in tetraplegics, through a robotic arm. Settings: Physical and (neuromuscular) Rehabilitation Medicine, Cardiology, Neurosurgery Clinic Divisions of TEHBA and UMPCD, in collaboration with“Brain2Robot" (composed of the European Commission-funded Marie Curie Excellence Team by the same name, hosted by Fraunhofer Institute-FIRST), in the second part of 2008.

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It is important to evaluate walking ability quantitatively in order to solve the problem of extended nursing dependency in the elderly community.Efficient rehabilitation can be made possible and a care worker's burden can be reduced.In this study, the movable range and speed of the legs in exercise are measured and parameters that are related to walking ability are extracted. The targetsare two movements in the experiment.

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Objective: Evaluation (from the ICF-DH conceptual approach) of the complex medico-psycho-social problems encountered at home, by persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) sequels. Material, Methods: 660 patients with chronic SCI were reviewed by the questionnaire technique (focused mainly on basic, instrumental activities of daily living, medical, social problems encountered after discharge from the Teaching Emergency Hospital "Bagdasar-Arseni - TEHBA, Bucharest). The feed-back rate was 64,4% (425 from 660 subjects). There were 205 quadriplegics (48%), 220 paraplegics (52%). The mortality was 9% during the follow-up period, 2001-2010.

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This presentation concentrates on natural age-changes in the lungs, particularly confined to the surfactant producing pneumocytes type II. Pulmonary surfactant is essential for maintaining lung function. Age-changes in surfactant and their possible clinical consequences are unsettled.

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Recently, the number of stroke patient has been increasing in many countries including Japan according to aging of population. Besides the number of physical therapist (PT) has not increased despite of the aging of society and the absence of PT is one of the social problem. Therefore it is necessary that a PT treat with several stroke patients at the same time, but it is difficult problem for the PT. We think that one of the solutions of this problem is to use the some devices for rehabilitation, which device called “Pata-Koro" made by Biophilia institute. First, we study the efficacy at the rehabilitation, because those of those devices have been not studied. In this study the purpose is to measure the brain activity by fMRI and NIRS at the rehabilitation. Although the fMRI images are adequate for brain activity detection, the patients cannot use the devices at the measurement. Although the patients can use the devices at NIRS measurement, the NIRS image data is not efficient for the brain activity detection. We study the relation between fMRI image and NIRS image at the rehabilitation. In the next step we study the efficacy of devices will be studied with NIRS image at the rehabilitation.

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Hypothesis:We performed this study to reveal different aspects of p-RMS applied on motor points of lower limbs.Objective:To compare, in these respect, the efficiency of p-RMS vs. ES.

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This research is systems development, devices development, noninvasive evaluation of body situation and continuous research of the evaluation research being done until now.The systems development is not performed until now. (It is based on patent search) . Device development makes possible reduce the patients who forced “acceptance of disability" due to performing the motivative exercise by domestic and functional recovery.

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This article describes the steps we should undertake to establish a sustainable super-aged society. The article consists of the following chapters:
1. Foreword
2. The motive, process and progress of the approach
3. The reports on the established Takizawa Method and Motivative Exercise
4. Present social structure of Japan and the world
5. Features of the current rehabilitation medicine and medical treatment
6. Our studies
7. Results of studies
8. Conclusions, References and Acknowledgments.
The research findings about the brain functional activation by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) are shown. It is concluded that a clear verification of brain functional improvement and the randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the current method of rehabilitation against the Takizawa method are necessary from now on.

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