Keynote Lecture 1: Practical Rehabilitation Strategies for managing High-risk Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease…Masahiro KOHZUKI 345

Keynote Lecture 2 : Practical Rehabilitative Approach for Cardiovascular High-risk Patients…Kazuya MIZUOCHI 350

A Case of Pulmonary Emphysema in a young Patient with difficulty in Rehabilitation…Naoshi SHIMODA, Yu SASAO, Minoru TOYOKURA, Mitsuhiko KODAMA, Tsuyoshi ICHIKAWA 354

A Case Report of a Respiratory Disorder Patient due to High Cervical Spinal Cord Injury who was treated cooperatively at several Hospitals…Fumihito KASAI, Mizutaka AZUMA, Kaori KATO, Masako NAGASAWA, Hideyasu WATANABE, Masazumi MIZUMA 358

A Case Report of Acute Phase Cardiac Rehabilitation for a Heart Failure Patient, who suffered from Subacute Myocardial Infarction and received Emergent Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting after Ventricular Fibrillation…Shigeru MAKITA 363

Long-term Inpatient Rehabilitation for a Patient with severe Cardiorespiratory Failure due to Cardiopulmonary Arrest following Myocardial Infarction…Hirofumi TAKAUCHI, Manabu NONOGAKI 368

Rehabilitation for a Patient with Congestive Heart Failure due to Atrial Fibrillation and severe Anemia manifesting as Symptoms of Myelodysplastic Syndrome…Masayuki KANAZAWA, Masahiro KOHZUKI, Naoyoshi MINAMI 372

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Effects of running speed and duration on a treadmill on bone properties were investigated in ovariectomized (OVX) mice. Sixty female ICR mice, twelve-weeks-old, were used in this study. They were divided into six groups of 10 mice each : either the SHAM, OVX, OVX+running groups (AS, AL, BS, BL), randomly. Running groups ran on the treadmill at 8 (A) or 16 (B) m/min, for 25 (S) or 50 (L) min, 5 days/week, for 10 weeks, respectively. After this, both femur and tibia bones were excised from the hind limb, and removed off surrounding tissues. Thereafter, bone mechanical strength (3 point bending test), dry bone weight and also ash content of the bones were determined. Bone mechanical strength and ash content of the femur and tibia in AL, BS, and BL mice were significantly higher than those in OVX mice. Running speed had effects on the bone mechanical strength and ash content of both bones significantly. Group BL showed the maximum values in bone properties among the running groups. This study suggested that a combination of running speed and duration could affect bone properties more significantly than the amount of exercise alone.

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