Keynote Address of the Head of Graduate School
Greetings from the Graduate School of Health Sciences
Jun Kumagai, MD
Head, Graduate School of Health Sciences,
Yamagata Prefectural University of Health Sciences
We are now living in the country which has been moving rapidly towards the society with more population of the aged people with a declining birth rate. The introductions of high technology into the medicine enabled to lighten the burden of the patients thorough modern minimal invasive operations or shorter hospital stay. On the other hand, economic condition of the country requires dramatic changes of the medical and health care systems. In these circumstances the role of the health sciences has been grown and has become more important in these ten years.
The personnel of health care sciences have contributed to the people in our society in various fields: to patients with acute illness in emergency hospitals, to those with chronic ailments in hospitals for consistent recovery and to people who receive daily community based rehabilitations.
In 2004, we established the Graduate School of Health Sciences (master course program) in Yamagata Prefectural University of Health Sciences, to develop the health care personnel who acquired sophisticated knowledge and techniques. Our graduate school has three divisions; Nursing, Physical Therapy and Occupation therapy.
Students who searched for answers to their original questions which had been raised in their clinical activities or undergraduate studies, who would satisfy the deep interest about their specialty in the health sciences, or who wanted to investigate functions of human bodies in detail spent 2 years here to conduct the consistently good researches (The titles of the established papers appear on the other page).
I wish the graduate students in our campus would eventually be satisfied with the fruits of the research and strengthen the individual role in the health care professions. I also wish the students to obtain the intercommunication skills through tough discussions among peers or professors along the research process.
The entire faculty staff would like to support all the students of three divisions through the execution of our community based research projects, journal clubs or conferences.
Supervisor of the Graduate School
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Field
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Area
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Supervisor
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Lecture Subjects
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Research Fields
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Nursing
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Basic and Patho-
physiological Nursing
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 Kunihiko Maeda（Professor）
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Pathophysiology in Nursing
（Lecture）
Pathophysiology in Nursing
（Seminar）
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●Pathological analysis on characteristics of the lifestyle-related diseases in Yamagata Prefecture
●Comprehensive analysis on patho- epidemiological features of malignant tumors in Yamagata Prefecture
●Pathological evaluation on novel therapeutic approaches against malignant tumor
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 Takao Yamashita（Professor）
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Pathophysiology in Nursing
（Lecture）
Pathophysiology in Nursing
（Seminar）
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●Immunology and Parasitology
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Maternity and Newborn Nursing
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 Keiko Endo（Professor）
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Maternity and Newborn Nursing (Lecture)
Maternity and Newborn Nursing (Seminar)
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●Psychological status of and nursing interventions for infertile couples
●Sexual behavior and sexuality education during puberty
●Health care systems of women's health in community
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 Mitsuko Ohira（Professor）
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Perinatal Nursing
（Lecture）
Perinatal Nursing
（Seminar）
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●Nursing intervention to Maternal role attainment
●Nursing intervention for prevention of child abuse
●Family support on perinatal period
●Study on Sexual health and sexual behavior
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Adult and
Gerontological Nursing
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 Kouko Yamada（Professor）
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Adult Nursing and Gerontological Nursing
（Lecture）
Adult Nursing and Gerontological Nursing
（Seminar）
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●That supports QOL for the elderly people and family care giver
●Palliative care nursing
●Community support of the elderly people living alone
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Psychiatric
Nursing
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 Kazuoki Kume（Professor）
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Psychiatric Nursing
(Lecture)
Psychiatric Nursing
(Seminar)
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●Research on
techniques of team
nursing in
psychiatric hospitals
●Research on
various tasks
related to social
participation of
mentally ill persons
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Public and Community Health Nursing
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 Kyoko Sugawara（Professor）
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Public policy for
Health Management of the Communities
（Lecture）
Public policy for
Health Management of the Communities
（Seminar）
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●Health needs of
community people
●Nursing diagnosis
for public and
community health
nursing
●Developing a tool
to evaluate
accountability of
health services
provided by local
health agencies
●Health service
systems under
autonomy of local
government for
residents’
participation
●Historical
exploration of
Japanese law on
public health
nursing
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Field
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Area
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Supervisor
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Lecture Subjects
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Research Fields
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Physical Therapy
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Basic Physical Therapy
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 Hitoshi Makabe（Professor）
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Motion Analysis and Its Application
（Lecture）
Motion Analysis and Its Application
（Seminar）
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●Physical therapy and evaluation for neuromuscular disease
●Chaos and time-series analysis for biological reaction
●Study for characteristics of muscle contraction by EMG
●Health promotion and rehabilitation for people at home
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 Katsuo Uchida
(Professor)
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Exercise Physiology
(Lecture)
Exercise Physiology
(Seminar)
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●Comprehensive
studies on respi-
ration, circulation
and metabolic
functions during
exercise
●Noninvasive
measurements of
cardiac parameters
by rebreathing
●Sugar and lipid
metabolism
during exercise
measured with
non-radioactive
isotope 13C
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Clinical Physical Therapy
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 Kouji Ihashi（Professor）
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Physical Therapy for Motor Performance
(Lecture)
Physical Therapy for Motor Performance
(Seminar)
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●Study of physical therapy intervention including respiratory therapy, electrical therapy and manual therapy for impaired motor performance
●Development of clinical outcome measures regarding motor performance
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 Hideto Kanzaki（Professor）
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Physical Therapy for Motor Performance
(Lecture)
Physical Therapy for Motor Performance
(Seminar)
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●Effects of physical therapy for patients with musculoskeletal conditions
●Kinematic and kinetic analysis of the human motion
●Aging and training
●Lower limb alignment
●Effects of lower limb orthosis on the gait
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 Jun Kumagai（Professor）
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Rehabilitation for the Musculoskeletal Disorders
(Lecture)
Rehabilitation for the Musculoskeletal Disorders
(Seminar)
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Orthopaedic research on
●Pathogenesis
and treatment of the frozen
shoulder
●Histological
investigation of
the shoulder
problems
●Production of a
shoulder contracture model
●New therapeutic
device for the stiff neck
●Arthroscopic
investigations of the joint
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Field
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Area
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Supervisor
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Lecture Subjects
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Research Fields
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Occupational Therapy
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Clinical Occupational Therapy
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 Hiromi Fujii（Professor）
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Activity analysis
（Lecture）
Activity analysis
（Seminar）
Analysis of how an activity is perceived to be typically done in the relevant culture, identifying typical demands and performance skills for activity.
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●Functional anatomical analysis of the human upper limb
●Physiological analysis of neural connections in the human upper limb
●Neurobehavioral analysis of the hemiplegic human upper limb
●Neurobehavioral analysis of eye-hand coordination in daily living
●Activity analysis of daily living
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Developmental Occupational Therapy
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 Emiko Fukuda（Professor）
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Developmental Disorder in Occupational Therapy
(Lecture)
Developmental Disorder in Occupational Therapy
(Seminar)
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●Research in upper extremity motion trail
●Research in development of perceptual acquirement process
●Research in interrupted environment factors
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 Shinji Satake（Professor）
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Occupational Support of Development
(Lecture)
Occupational Support of Development
(Seminar)
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●Developmental
Psychology
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References of the Supervisors
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Field
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Area
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Supervisor
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Lecture Subjects
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Nursing
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Basic and Patho-
physiological Nursing
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Kunihiko Maeda（Professor）
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TEL. & FAX 023-686-6628
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Takao Yamashita（Professor）
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TEL. & FAX 023-686-6629
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Maternity and Newborn Nursing
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Keiko Endo（Professor）
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TEL. & FAX 023-686-6642 kendo@yachts.ac.jp
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Mitsuko Ohira（Professor）
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TEL. & FAX 023-686-6644 mohira@yachts.ac.jp
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Adult and
Gerontological Nursing
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Kouko Yamada（Professor）
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TEL. & FAX 023-686-6614 kyamada@yachts.ac.jp
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Psychiatric
Nursing
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Kazuoki Kume（Professor）
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TEL. & FAX 023-686-6764
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Public and Community Health Nursing
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Kyoko Sugawara（Professor）
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TEL. & FAX 023-686-6615 ksugawara@yachts.ac.jp
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Physical Therapy
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Basic Physical Therapy
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Hitoshi Makabe（Professor）
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Katsuo Uchida
(Professor)
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Clinical Physical Therapy
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Kouji Ihashi（Professor）
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Hideto Kanzaki（Professor）
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Jun Kumagai（Professor）
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Occupational Therapy
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Clinical Occupational Therapy
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Hiromi Fujii（Professor）
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Developmental Occupational Therapy
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Emiko Fukuda（Professor）
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TEL. & FAX 023-686-6656
efukuda@yachts.ac.jp |
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Shinji Satake（Professor）
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TEL. & FAX 023-686-6661
ssatake@yachts.ac.jp |
Titles of the completed Master’s theses
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Field
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Completed year
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Title of the Master’s thesis
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Supervisor
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Nursing
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2006
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A Study of the Structure of the Hopelessness by illness ―Analysis of the Narrative on the Experience of Hopelessness by CCI―
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Yuko Matsumura（former Professor）
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A Study on the Perinatal Attachment of Pregnant Women with Experience of Hospitalization
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Kayoko Kawasaki（former Professor）
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Why Some Patients cannot Express their Worries to Nurses?
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Yuko Matsumura（former Professor）
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Research into Health Promotion and the activity of Public Health Nurses: A Study from the viewpoint of accountability, concerning the development and promulgation of policy for “Health Promotion Yamagata 21”
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Fujiko Yuzawa（former Professor）
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Quality of life in primiparous women for a month after childbirth.
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Miharu Nishiwaki（former Professor）
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Survey Study to Identify Issues and Concerns for Terminal Care at Nursing Homes.
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Kouko Yamada（Professor）
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Factors and conditions influencing decision making process of a family care giver to admit an elderly family member with dementia into health care institution.
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Yoshiko Sekito（former Professor）
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2007
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Study on Newly Graduated Nursing Staffs’ Usage of Ward Staffs in Clinical Nursing Practice.
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Hiromi Saito（former Professor）
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Relationships among Body Awareness, Health Locus of Control and Self-Affirmation in Pregnant Women.
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Miharu Nishiwaki（former Professor）
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Learning process of nurses with clinical performance developments from novice to competence.
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Kouko Yamada（Professor）
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A Study on the Daily Changes of Degree of Difficulty in Living Activity by Pains etc. after Childbirth.
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Miharu Nishiwaki（former Professor）
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Learning process of nurses with clinical performance developments from novice to competence.
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Hiromi Saito（former Professor）
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2008
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A Study on the Relation between Nurses and Patients / their Families in the End-of-life Care.
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Kouko Yamada（Professor）
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Changes and relationships among vaginal internal pressure, labor pressure, dilatation and effacement of soft birth canal, and position of fetal head during the first stage of labor.
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Miharu Nishiwaki（former Professor）
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Individual needs for nursing supports of persons with schizophrenia who utilize day care services in a community.
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Yoshiko Sekito（former Professor）
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Factors Related to HADS (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) in Outpatients with Diabetes Mellitus.
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Yoshiko Sekito（former Professor）
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A longitudinal study on development and influential factors of maternal identify ～A comparison between unmarried womens’ pregnancy and married womens’ pregnancy～
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Miharu Nishiwaki（former Professor）
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Physical Therapy
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2006
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Study of the upper extremity movement pattern in infant term.
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Hitoshi Makabe（Professor）
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Quantitative analysis of Head, Trunk and Pelvis movements during tilting reaction in sitting position.
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Kouji Ihashi（Professor）
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Influence of erector spinae muscles on trunk flexion
―the flexion relaxation phenomenon―
MITAKI H, ITO T, MIWA M, KUSAKABE A. Relation between chronic low back pain and flexion relaxation phenomenon. J Lumbar spine Disorder, 2007; 13 (1): 136-143.
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Makoto Miwa（former Professor）
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2007
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Determinants of comfortable and maximum gait velocities in elderly people with weakness.
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Kouji Ihashi（Professor）
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Relationship between the range of motion of hip and knee joints in lower extremities with restricted knee extension.
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Makoto Miwa（former Professor）
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Effects of inspiratory muscle training to maintain respiratory function using incentive spirometer in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
HOSHI T, IHASHI K, YOSHINO H, SHIMANUKI J, OSHIMA K, NAKANO M, NAKAGAWA N,
NISHIBORI Y. Effects of inspiratory muscle
training to maintain respiratory function using
incentive spirometer in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Japanese Physical Therapy Association. 2008; 35(6) 285-291.
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Kouji Ihashi（Professor）
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Relationship between fall-associated factors and dynamic balance in the sitting and standing positions among elderly people living in the community.
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Hideto Kanzaki（Professor）
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2008
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Relationship between the change of skin temperature and sensory nerve conduction velocity by physical activity in elderly people.
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Makoto Miwa（former Professor）
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Effects of prior heavy-intensity exercise and massage on the capacities of exercise tolerance and recovery.
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Katsuo Uchida
(Professor)
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Occupational Therapy
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2006
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A study on the evaluation of life function after house remodeling by the nursing care insurance and the development of a remodeling check seat ―with a general idea of ICF―
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Shinji Satake（Professor）
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Characteristics of the wrist’s to-and-fro movement during flexion and extension in hemiplegia.
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Emiko Fukuda（Professor）
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The influence of a visual clue in dressing actions of healthy people. ―Survey on frequency, duration, position of Fixation points and task achievement―
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Emiko Fukuda（Professor）
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2007
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Analysis of sit-to-stand movement by difference of hip abduction and external rotation angle.
Kafuku T, Fujii H, Kimura Y, Ishii Y, Fujikura M, Fukuda E. Analysis of sit-to-stand movement from a hip abduction and external rotation position. Sogo Rehabilitation. 2007; 35(7): 711-718.
Kafuku T, Izumida Y, Kimura Y, Ishii Y, Fujikura M, Fukuda E, Fujii H. Electromyographic analysis of sit-to-stand movement from a hip abduction and external rotation position. Sogo Rehabilitation. 2008; 36(5): 483-491.
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Emiko Fukuda（Professor）
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The characteristics of view point during eating action ―Comparison between self and assisted eating in health human subjects―
Suzuki Y, Fujii H, Satake S, Sato K, Fukuda E. The influence of a visual clue in dressing actions of healthy people. Sogo Rehabilitation. 2006; 34(12): 1185-1194.
Suzuki Y, Fujii H, Saito H, Fukuda E. Identification of body axis during eating movement. The bulletin of Yamagata Occupational Therapists Society,
2007; 5(1): 11-16.
Suzuki Y, Fujii H, Satake S, Fukuda E. The influence of a visual clue in dressing action of adult hemiplegia. Sogo Rehabilitation. 2008; 35(4): 375-384.
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Emiko Fukuda（Professor）
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2008
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A study on the shift of the center of pressure in the sitting position in healthy people.
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Shinji Satake（Professor）
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Changes of the human wrist force by changing positions of the forearm.
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Hiromi Fujii（Professor）
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Inhibition from biceps brachii to pronator teres in humans: A study using an electromyogram-
averaging method.
Fujita T, Sotokawa T, Sato T, Suzuki K, Sagae M, Nakano H, Naganuma M, Fujii H, Kato K, Naito A. Development of an automatic device for
measuring, monitoring and recording direction and strength of human wrist-force. Structure and Function. 2007; 6(1): 11-17.
Sato T, Suzuki K, Sotokawa T, Fujita T, Sagae M, Nakano H, Naganuma M, Fujii H, Kato K, Naito A. Simultaneous recording system for digital video pictures and electric signals, Structure and Function. 2007; 6(1): 3-9.
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Hiromi Fujii（Professor）
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