Biography and Future of the Biophilia Rehabilitation

Abstract

This article describes the steps we should undertake to establish a sustainable super-aged society. The article consists of the following chapters: 1. Foreword 2. The motive, process and progress of the approach 3. The reports on the established Takizawa Method and Motivative Exercise 4. Present social structure of Japan and the world 5. Features of the current rehabilitation medicine and medical treatment 6. Our studies 7. Results of studies 8. Conclusions, References and Acknowledgments. The research findings about the brain functional activation by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) are shown. It is concluded that a clear verification of brain functional improvement and the randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the current method of rehabilitation against the Takizawa method are necessary from now on. 1. Foreword Japan is a country where many people live to advanced age. This results from the development of medical treatment, hygiene, health and welfare. There are firm regulations in Japan which have helped obtain such a result. The rule-based control also concerns the rehabilitative medical treatment. However, the treatment result has inconsistency. Under the universal coverage of public health insurance of all the Japanese, the number of people who require care, based on the elderly care insurance, was 5 million in October, 2010. That was an increase by 680000 from 4320000 people at the end of March, 2006. All the people requiring such care received a treatment based on rehabilitation medicine. On the other hand, the analysis of the claim data of Medicare in a rehabilitation hospital in the USA from 1987 through 1994 shows the fact that the spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, femoral neck fracture, arthritis and other joint diseases made people stay longer in the hospital and increased the costs 1). The author of this article began to research the possibility of restructuring this ineffective rehabilitation medicine from 1987, almost 24 years ago. Once Dr. Kunihiko Fukui who worked in rehabilitation medicine for 50 years as a pioneer of rehabilitative medical treatment in Japan said 2), 3) , "It comes to nothing; waste the time and effort without effect for the patients to continue the current rehabilitation medical treatment especially for the elderly." At the congress of the Japanese

<b>The Restructuring of Rehabilitation Medicine in order to the Society Sustainable at the Demographic Transition Era</b>

“…, verified the effect of the Takizawa , developed devices 6)7)8), changed the name of the meeting into the Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy and organized the international organization towards spread 9) , and measured the encephalic function about the mechanism of the effect 10)11) . We show the grants that made the study possible 12) .…”