Current Monitoring Situation on Group Exercises in Intermediate Welfare Facilities

Abstract

We conducted a questionnaire among physical therapists working in intermediate welfare facilities to confirm the existence of cardiopulmonary function risks in individual instruction and group exercises performed in intermediate welfare facilities. The monitoring items of physiological reactions while exercising were chosen from the options in order of priority, then points to were allocated them and the order confirmed. In the results, it was found that accidents both in individual counseling and in group exercises had occurred, and 62.5% of physical therapists answered that PTs did not receive enough information to manage the risks. The monitoring situation was that sequential pulse variation and adjusted exercise load were evaluated in individual counseling, but only physiological reactions which occurred after motor stress were evaluated in group excercises. The subjects of group exercises had many conditions and their exercise load was difficult to establish, so it was thought that we should confirm the existence of risks more that in individual counseling.