Research Activities in the Department of Physical Therapy

[Introduction] It is already fifty years since the Japanese law of physical therapists and occupational therapists has been effective. The physical therapist is referred by the law as "the professionals who implements the physical therapy to persons with disabilities under the prescription of medical doctors". In fifty years, however, the target of physical therapy has been significantly expanded. The subject for physical therapy now includes the patients in acute disease just after the surgical operation in addition to those in rehabilitation stage. In other words, the physical therapy is now recognized as the indispensable intervention to the subject with acute as well as chronic disorders. On the other hand, due to a rapid transition of the society into the aged society, prevention of diseases, and decline of activity capacity due to the aging have become major issues for the physical therapy

Observation of the Effects of Radially Sheared Electric Fields on the Suppression of Turbulent Vortex Structures and the Associated Transverse Loss in GAMMA 10

Vortexlike turbulent structures in hot-ion mode plasmas with several keVare observed in the case with a radially produced weak shear of electric fields Er. However, a strong Er shear formation due to a high ionconfining potential φc production clears up these vortices together with plasma-confinement improvement and disappearance of both drift-wave and turbulencelike Fourier spectral signals. These findings are based on three-time progress in φc in comparison to φc attained 1992–2002. The significant advance of φc is well extended in line with proposed potential-formation physics scalings