The Necessity to Introduce Home Visiting Physiotherapy

가정방문 물리치료의 도입 필요성

  • Kim, Dong-Me (Dept. of Physical Therapy, Wallace Memorial Baptist Hospital)
  • Published : 1996.06.30

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the necessity to provide a much better and more comfortable physiotherapy than institutional physiotherapy to a number of home-keeping handicapped persons and patients with a chronic-degenerative-denile disease. Home visiting physiotherapy can be defined as a behavior which a physiotherapist himself visit home and treat patients who cannot or hardly can visit hospital. To investigate factors which might influence the necessity for introduction of home visiting physiotherapy, this survey was carried out with the out-patients of four general hospital, one Chinese-medicine hospital, one welfare institution for handicapped persons, and also for all the physiotherapists registered in Pusan physiotherapist association using the structured questionare from March 1 to March 30.

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