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Volume 9 Journal of Health & Medical Informatics
ISSN: 2157-7420 Medical Informatics 2018
July 05-06, 2018
July 05-06, 2018 | Berlin, Germany
6th International Conference on
Medical Informatics & Telemedicine
Systems approach for visualization of somatic balance restoration therapy to alleviate pain of human
musculoskeletal system
Yoshiaki Ohkamia and Munehiro Kayoa
aSDM Keio University, Japan
Statement of the Problem: Chronic pain and general physical discomfort are common symptoms among those seeking
medical or physiotherapy treatment, as it relates to disorders found in the Human Musculoskeletal System (HMS). Since this
system is highly complex and large in scale, clinical pain research has been confounded by many complex factors. To tackle
with such a complex problem, the authors have applied a system engineering approach to examine a therapist-guided exercise
method for restoring human musculoskeletal balance called the Somatic Balance Restoration Therapy (SBRT). The SBRT is a
simple but effective self-exercise therapy with minimal assistance by a trained therapist. As shown in Fig. 1, the SBRT starts
with diagnoses of a series of voluntary motions self-excited by patient and the results are recorded in a systematic way in
which the motions are categorized according to the patient reactions; painful, hard or comfortable. The voluntary motions
are usually accompanied by involuntary motions that are utilizes in the SBRT. The results of the diagnosis are analyzed by
matrix manipulations leading to identification of malfunctioning part of HMS. The process is to relate 80 voluntary motions
and 58 associated motions to joint motions, which are converted to the functional anatomical terms. This realizes smooth
communication between specialists of three different disciplines: therapy, conventional medicine and systems engineering. It is
noted that each voluntary motion accompany more than one anatomical motions. This step is extremely important to integrate
conventional medicine and oriental therapy. Furthermore, joint DOF expression is immediately linked to robotics, which leads
to computer-aided support of the therapy process. Some examples will be given to demonstrate the proposed therapy.
Biography
Yoshiaki Ohkami obtained his Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology and joined National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (1968-1992). During the period
of 1972-1974, he worked at UCLA as NASA International Fellow, in 1985-1986 Deputy Director for International Space Station Program Office at Science and
Technology Agency. He served as a professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1992-1999, and was invited by JAXA to manage the overall R& D activities of
the Tsukuba Research Center from 1999 to 2006. In 2000, he was invited as a professor of graduate school of Keio University to augment the higher education
programs in system design engineering, and now he is the Dean of Graduate School of Systems Design and Management, Keio University. He took the initiatives
in establishing this new graduate school that started in April, 2008.
Yoshiaki Ohkami et al., J Health Med Informat 2018, Volume 9
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7420-C1-021