A Japanese Stretching Intervention Can Modify Lumbar Lordosis Curvature.

Study Design: Eighteen healthy male adults were assigned to either an intervention or control group.

Objectives: Isogai dynamic therapy (IDT) is one of Japanese stretching interventions and has been practiced for over 70 years. However, its scientific quantitative evidence remains unestablished.

[Systematic review of fall-related factors among the house-dwelling elderly in Japan].

Background: Fall-related factors and individual characteristics of the elderly who have had fall are necessary to develop practical fall prevention programs, and life support management. However, no nation-wide meta-analysis of the fall-related factors of elderly has been performed in Japan.

Objectives: To conduct a meta-analysis concerning fall-related factors among the house-dwelling elderly in Japan.