Daisuke Kubota

An Outpatient-based Survey on the Recognition of Locomotive Syndrome in Japan: The Results of three Years of Surveys

Yu Tanabe, Yoshiyuki Suehara, Taketo Okubo, Yongji Kim, Midori Ishii, Takayuki Kawasaki, Kiyoshi Matsuoka, Keisuke Akaike, Kenta Mukaihara, Daisuke Kubota, Naoko Okubo, Yuichiro Maruyama, Tsuyoshi Saito & Kazuo Kaneko · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2016

Background: In 2007, the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) proposed the term locomotive syndrome (LS) and the Japan Locomo Challenge Promotion Conference (JLCPC) began to carry out continuous campaigns to increase the LS recognition. LS awareness and prevention activities ha...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJMMR/2016/26127

A Comparative Study of 2 Screening Tools for Locomotive Syndrome (The “Loco-check” and the “GLFS-25”): An Orthopedic Outpatient-based Survey

Youngji Kim, Yoshiyuki Suehara, Midori Ishii, Takayuki Kawasaki, Kiyoshi Matsuoka, Taketo Okubo, Naoko Okubo, Yu Tanabe, Keisuke Akaike, Kenta Mukaihara, Daisuke Kubota, Yuichiro Maruyama, Tsuyoshi Saito & Kazuo Kaneko · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2016

Background: In 2007, the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) proposed the term “locomotive syndrome” (LS) to designate a condition in high-risk groups with musculoskeletal diseases who are highly likely to require nursing care. The JOA developed two screening tools for LS: The...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJMMR/2016/28194