In this article, three topics were discussed. First, touch sensation as interface of self and environment was discussed in terms of Embodied psychology. Second, the effect of touching was discussed. In the first experiment, a psychological change in three groups that had operated the body contact was examined. (touching, being touched, and self touch). The result was that only in touched subjects their anxiety level lowered. Second experiment revealed that the amount of physical touch received from parents in childhood effect their psychological adaptation in their adult period. Third, the mechanism of Acupuncture and moxibustion therapy was discussed in terms of skin. Both therapies intervenes the skin, and they cause the change for internal organs
and the muscle, etc, and, in addition, these changes are reflected in the skin. The skin is, in a word, an interface of the input and the output. The importance of treating the skin from such an aspect, and of the direct contact to the skin was discussed.

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[Objective]The effect of acupuncture and moxibustion on the autonomic function was investigated in patients with various syndromes.
[Methods]Heart rate, blood pressure, electric skin resistance, skin temperature and body temperature were measured before and after the treatments. The measurement was performed on 11 patients for 6 months.
[Results]There were no significant changes in blood pressure and body temperature, but there were significant changes in heart rate, electric skin resistance. Skin temperature and body temperature were measured before and after the treatments. Heart rate tended to decrease. There were obvious differences in the change in skin temperature and electric skin resistance.
[Conclusion]Some of autonomic functions changed after treatments and these autonomic changes in patients are suggested to be related to improving indefinite complaints of the patients.

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[Purpose]To investigate the present use of medical expenses for acupuncture and moxibustion, and judo and massage therapies under the health insurance system in contracted nursing care plans prepared by nursing care managers.
[Methods]The subjects were 75 nursing care service providers who were registered in a certain municipally (B City) with an aging index of 27.7%. We investigated the experience and use of medical expenses for acupuncture and moxibustion therapy through a mail survey. The survey period was from July 10 to July 31 in 2006. The collection rate was 57.3%(43out of 75 nursing care service providers). We used simple adding, the Kruskal-Wallis test, factor analysis (principal factor method) and path analysis.
[Results]In simple adding, there were 3,535 total care receivers, 11.5%of the total aged population in B City. Users who took acupuncture and moxibustion therapy were 2.5%of the total care receivers in nursing care plans. However, 10 people could not take acupuncture and moxibustion therapy due to their economic conditions. Nine out of 41 nursing care service providers (22.0%) had users who could not take acupuncture and moxibustion therapy because their healthcare facilities would not sign the written informed consent. In factor analysis (principal factor analysis), "experience and recognition of acupuncture and moxibustion therapy using medical expenses"was extracted as the first principal component. In pass analysis, it can be explained that nursing care managers who planned acupuncture and moxibustion therapy using medical expenses had recognized that the therapy would maintain the capabilities for activities of daily living (ADL) and quality of life (QOL) of the users.
[Conclusion]When nursing care managers planned acupuncture and moxibustion therapy for maintenance of ADL and QOL in their care services using medical expenses, they were considered to have recognized that the therapy would keep the users'ADL and QOL.

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[Objective]The purpose of this study was to examine factors of the motivation for receiving acupuncture therapy in athletes.
[Methods]Four-hundred and twenty-two university students majoring in physical education participated in the survey using quantifiable fears and knowledge of acupuncture therapy and attitudes about receiving acupuncture treatment.
[Results]They were divided in two ways;one whose members play team sports (team group) or individual sports (individual group), and one whose members play interpersonal sports (interpersonal group) or competitive athletics (competitive group). There were significant between-group differences, when comparing the interpersonal group and competitive group. In stepwise multiple regression analysis, fear of acupuncture therapy, knowledge of acupuncture therapy, family members experience with acupuncture therapy and interpersonal sports or competitive athletics were independently and significantly associated with the motivation for receiving therapy.
[Conclusion]It was shown that athlete's personality including the sport event type characteristics influenced the attitude about receiving acupuncture treatment.

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[Objective]We report on a hemophilia A patient who was treated at the department of internal medicine of our hospital receiving acupuncture treatment at an acupuncture treatment clinic. It began with iliopsoas muscle hematoma, and remarkably hindered daily life with severe pain.
[Case]The case was a male hemophilia A patient in his twenties. He continuously took clotting factor replacement therapy by self-injection. He received acupuncture treatment in the lower back, and increasingly came to have more pain in the lower back and extremities. He was admitted to our hospital with a fusiform blood tumor in the iliopsoas muscle with MRI.
[Conclusion]In a congenital bleeding disease, it is necessary to check the condition and the severity of symptoms by collecting information through medical examination by interview, visual examination, examination by touch, and manual muscle testing for acupuncture treatment.

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[Objective]The purpose of this study is to evaluate an effect of electroacupuncture therapy on low back pain of collegiate athletes.
[Methods]Subjects were 28 collegiate athletes with low back pain who gave informed consent. They consulted a medical doctor beforehand. The electroacupuncture therapy was performed as acupuncture. The evaluation items were as follows:Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) which expresses the state of the pain (Pain-VAS), VAS which shows a training state (Training-VAS), five phases of evaluations to show a training state, pain at the time of the trunk movements, Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire (RDQ), and Japanese Orthopedic Association (JOA) score. The correlation of each item was estimated.
[Results]The chief complaint of 27 people was low back pain, and one person had pain of the low back and the lower extremities. In the diagnosis, 16 people had non-specific low back pain, 5people had lumbar vertebrae discopathy, and 3had a lumber vertebrae herniated disk. As a result of acupuncture, the training-VAS and five phases of evaluations to show the training state and JOA score were significantly improved. However, as for the pain-VAS and pain at the time of trunk movements and RDQ, a significant difference was not accepted.
[Conclusion]Training-VAS is useful for measuring the outcome of an athlete with low back pain. It is important that athletes with low back pain evaluate their training.

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