Subject | Rehabilitation Medicine | ||
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Associate professor
Daisaku TOKUNAGA Assistant professor (Lecturer) Suzuyo OHASHI, Takashi KAWASAKI, Shogo TOYAMA Koshiro SAWADA, Masaki KONDO, Hirokazu SHIRAISHI,
Assistant professor (Instructor) Motohiko BANNO |
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Research Contents | Founding prospectus With our rapidly aging population, it has become more important to increase healthy and disability-free life expectancy, and a demand for rehabilitation medicine has been growing. Rehabilitation medicine consists of a wide range of clinical work, from acute rehabilitation to recovery and chronic rehabilitation, and entails the treatment of disabling conditions, active management of disability, and prevention of secondary complications. Doctors working in rehabilitation medicine need a wide range of competencies to provide holistic and lifelong care to their patients with complex disabilities. The supply of specialists, however, is far from catching up with the ever-increasing need for rehabilitation medicine resulting from the rapid increase in high-age population. The sophistication of medicine in such fields as neonatal medicine, life-saving medicine, organ transplantation, and regenerative medicine and the more complex forms of impairment is also imperative. This is why we need special training programs to produce doctors with advanced competency in rehabilitation medicine, prepared for leadership in a medical team. Under these circumstances, the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine was established on October 1, 2014, to become the central core of the expansion program of the integrated community care system in Kyoto. 1) Development of robot rehabilitation (Robot rehabilitation center had established in our department in April 2015 and robot rehabilitation system had introduced) 2) Development of rehabilitation that applies biological physical stimulus (electrical stimulation,rTMS etc.) 3) Development of rehabilitation with combination of pharmacotherapy 4) Research of muscle loss from aging (sarcopenia) 5) Development of new prostheses and braces |
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Contact | TEL:81-75-251-5324 FAX:81-75-251-5327 e-mail:reha@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp |
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HP | http://www.f.kpu-m.ac.jp/k/reha/ |