和室用車椅子の試作とその使用経験

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The most important and difficult probelms of rehabilitation after discharge from hospital are the preparing of the paraplegia for housing and employment. The usual wheel chair is convenient to the patient who live in the European-style house, but not to the patient who live in the Japanese-style house. According to the result of investigation for the daily living of paraplegics who had been discharged from hospital, almost all of them want to live in the European-style house, but as things are, economic condition does not permit this requirement. For these patients, the means of moving in the Japanese-style house is crawling and this has imposed a heavy burden on their family. To solve this difficult problem, a wheel chair which is convenient to live in the Japanese-style house was devised. This wheel chair has smaller wheels, convenient to live in, harmonized with Japanese-room, and has been well received by the patients. On this condition, only places which should be reformed in Japanese-house will be toilet and bath rooms. And a patient who has gained independence from hospital, became self-reliant, will be able to returen home more easily, making use of this new wheel chair. Details about improvement of toilet and bath arrangement in the Japanese house for the patients in the wheel chair, was also discussed.
社団法人日本リハビリテーション医学会の論文
1969-04-18