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Creative Physical Therapy Lab
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A lab that develops physical therapy assessment and treatment methods, from basic research to clinical practice.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating physical therapy, from basic research to clinical practice.
The Creative Physical Therapy lab conducts research on developing advanced assessment and treatment methods that lead to health promotion, prevention of worsening and recurrence, and rehabilitation.
It aims to contribute to the creation of new physical therapy in the areas of frail older adults, neurological, musculoskeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular, and metabolic conditions, cancer, and sports.
A research exchange meeting between the health sciences departments of Nagoya University and Yonsei University in Korea is held every year, where graduate students take part and present their research results in English.
The lab also promotes interdisciplinary research on digital health, robotics, and regenerative medicine.
Key terms
- Frailty
- A weakened, vulnerable state in which physical and mental function has declined with old age
- Spasticity
- A condition after brain or spinal cord injury in which muscles become stiff and difficult to move
- Neuromuscular electrical stimulation therapy
- A treatment that applies electrical stimulation to muscles to make them contract
ResearchResearch themes
The lab develops advanced assessment and treatment methods with an eye to social implementation, and generates scientific evidence that contributes to health initiatives not only in Japan but across Asia and the world. In basic research, it mainly uses cultured cells and small animals to elucidate pathological mechanisms and verify the effects of physical therapy interventions. In clinical research, it conducts applied studies and studies using epidemiological methods in human participants.
*Illustrative imagePreventing Worsening and Long-Term Management
Representative research includes IoT-based prevention of worsening of atherothrombosis, long-term management of chronic heart failure using frailty diagnostic criteria, and neuromuscular electrical stimulation therapy for patients receiving acute-phase rehabilitation.
*Illustrative imagePostural Control, Aging, and Cognition
The lab examines postural control, from the information-processing stage to how aging and declines in cognitive and motor function affect control, skill acquisition, and learning. It also studies the relationship between postural changes in workers and temporomandibular joint problems, upper-limb musculoskeletal disorders, low back pain, and presenteeism.
*Illustrative imagePathology of Spasticity and New Treatments
Using central nervous system injury models of stroke (cerebral infarction) and spinal cord injury, the lab works to elucidate the pathology of motor dysfunction, especially spasticity. Focusing on plastic changes in the neuromuscular junctions and sensory nerves of spastic muscles, it aims to develop new treatments.
*Illustrative imageRehabilitation for Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
The lab studies the effects of rehabilitation interventions for pelvic floor dysfunction. It also conducts research on minor postpartum health problems in women and on falls in pregnant women.
MembersFaculty
The faculty of the Creative Physical Therapy lab consist of Professors, Associate Professors, Lecturers, and Assistant Professors.
- ProfessorYasushi Uchiyama
- Associate ProfessorSachiko Lee
- Associate ProfessorNaoki Akazawa
- LecturerNaoki Deguchi
- Assistant ProfessorNoriatsu Tatematsu
- Assistant ProfessorRyuji Sugitani
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Spangdahlem physical therapy rehabilitates Airmen after injury (7270861)” U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chanceler Nardone / Public domain (cropped)
- Preventing Worsening and Long-Term Management: “Rehabilitation of British Soldiers From Normandy- the work of the Robert Jones and Dame Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, Shropshire, England, UK, 1944 D21467” Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer, Smith Norman / Public domain (cropped)
- Postural Control, Aging, and Cognition: “Balance training board” Ashashyou / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Pathology of Spasticity and New Treatments: “Physical therapy clinic receives new equipment 130103-F-ES880-430” Staff Sgt. Stephenie Wade / Public domain (cropped)
- Rehabilitation for Pelvic Floor Dysfunction: “Physical Therapy Teaching Lab at CU Anschutz (October 2025)” Mikepascoe / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (生体機能科学): “Spangdahlem physical therapy rehabilitates Airmen after injury (7270864)” U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chanceler Nardone / Public domain (cropped)
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