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Title: | Interdisciplinary co‐design research practice in the rehabilitation of elderly individuals with chronic low back pain from a senior care center in South Korea | Authors: | Tufail, M Lee, HB Moon, YG Kim, H Kim, KM |
Issue Date: | May-2022 | Source: | Applied sciences, May 2022, v. 12, no. 9, 4687 | Abstract: | The rehabilitation practices encounter multifaceted problems inherent in the current context of the elderly with chronic low back pain (LBP). We addressed a particular multifaceted problem in the current context using an interdisciplinary co‐design research practice that consists of three phases: context exploration, patient‐expert interaction, and patient‐centered rehabilitation. Using an empirical study integrated with this practice, we investigated 30 Korean elderly patients suffering from LBP and introduced an exercise program design. In the context exploration phase, we found that the elderly patients neglected proper posture during work causing spine instability and resultantly developing chronic LBP. The patient–expert interaction phase explored latissimus dorsi (LD) and lumbar erector spinae (LES) muscles as the back trunk muscles that had caused LBP in most of these elderly patients. In the patient‐centered rehabilitation phase, we designed an exercise program with exercise protocols and an exercise object for flexion and extension of trunk muscle relaxation and stabilization. Using electromyography (EMG), we found that the exercise program significantly increased the muscle activation levels of the muscles and reduced LBP. Our practice defines and addresses a multifaceted problem with several challenges both in healthcare design and the problem itself. This integrated approach can easily be expanded and adapted to other domainrelated research projects that possess characteristics of complex problems. | Keywords: | Exercise Healthcare design Interdisciplinary co‐design research Low‐back pain Rehabilitation |
Publisher: | Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) | Journal: | Applied sciences | ISSN: | 2076-3417 | DOI: | 10.3390/app12094687 | Rights: | © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The following publication Tufail, M., Lee, H., Moon, Y., Kim, H., & Kim, K. (2022). Interdisciplinary Co-Design Research Practice in the Rehabilitation of Elderly Individuals with Chronic Low Back Pain from a Senior Care Center in South Korea. Applied Sciences, 12(9), 4687 is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/app12094687 |
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