The First Study on Locomotive Syndrome in Lower Amputees in Japan
Kei Sano, Yoshiyuki Suehara, Yu Tanabe, Taketo Okubo, Youngji Kim, Midori Ishii, Takayuki Kawasaki, Atsuhiko Terakado, Keisuke Akaike, Kenta Mukaihara, Daisuke Kubota, Naoko Okubo, Yuichiro Maruyama, Tsuyoshi Saito & Kazuo Kaneko · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2018
Background: In 2007, the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) proposed the term "Locomotive syndrome" (LS) to describe a condition in high-risk patients with musculoskeletal disease. So far, there are many studies that are designed for non-handicapped people. However, the study...
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10.9734/JAMMR/2018/40594