Portability and flexibility of physiotherapy tools for rehabilitation of people with obesity

The obesity rate in Malaysia is kept on increasing year by year. The causes for this issue are including unhealthy food intake and unhealthy lifestyle. As the obesity issues in Malaysia worsen, it leads to other problem such as diabetes,heart attack, stroke and also others physical problem. One of i...

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Main Authors: Abdul Rahman, Julaila, Zabidi, Nur Shahirah Nabilah, Kamaruddin, Zumahiran, Awang, Arita Hanim
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: Zes Rokman Resources 2017
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/59112/1/59112_PORTABILITY%20AND%20FLEXIBILITY%20OF%20PHYSIOTHERAPY%20TOOLS.pdf
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author Abdul Rahman, Julaila
Zabidi, Nur Shahirah Nabilah
Kamaruddin, Zumahiran
Awang, Arita Hanim
author_facet Abdul Rahman, Julaila
Zabidi, Nur Shahirah Nabilah
Kamaruddin, Zumahiran
Awang, Arita Hanim
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description The obesity rate in Malaysia is kept on increasing year by year. The causes for this issue are including unhealthy food intake and unhealthy lifestyle. As the obesity issues in Malaysia worsen, it leads to other problem such as diabetes,heart attack, stroke and also others physical problem. One of it is concerning on physical condition of the ankle. Theankle is the most important parts of a human structure that will affect human body posture. This means that activities were done are heavily influence by ankle condition leads to inefficiency of job performance. Physiotherapy tools are important for the rehabilitation process. The rehabilitation process is known as a healing process, which is essential in ensuring the improvement of health and physical condition of a patient, especially with obesity. Physiotherapist treatment is essential to ensure the effectiveness of rehabilitation process. Therefore, this research aims to understand the portability and flexibility of physiotherapy tools for people with obesity especially in dealing with their job performance. The objective of this study is to identify the physiotherapy tools in the rehabilitation process and to determine the portability and flexibility of the physiotherapy tools for the rehabilitation. Research methods were employed during the process of this study, which includes literature review, product line-up and interviews From this research, portability, and flexibility of the physiotherapy tools for the rehabilitation can help the patient to conduct self rehabat their homes thus boosting their healthy lifestyle. Based on the findings of this study, a new physiotherapy tools need recommended providing an excellent portability and flexibility in terms of the physiotherapy tools for obese patients.
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spelling iium-591122021-06-21T07:41:21Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/59112/ Portability and flexibility of physiotherapy tools for rehabilitation of people with obesity Abdul Rahman, Julaila Zabidi, Nur Shahirah Nabilah Kamaruddin, Zumahiran Awang, Arita Hanim H10 Societies The obesity rate in Malaysia is kept on increasing year by year. The causes for this issue are including unhealthy food intake and unhealthy lifestyle. As the obesity issues in Malaysia worsen, it leads to other problem such as diabetes,heart attack, stroke and also others physical problem. One of it is concerning on physical condition of the ankle. Theankle is the most important parts of a human structure that will affect human body posture. This means that activities were done are heavily influence by ankle condition leads to inefficiency of job performance. Physiotherapy tools are important for the rehabilitation process. The rehabilitation process is known as a healing process, which is essential in ensuring the improvement of health and physical condition of a patient, especially with obesity. Physiotherapist treatment is essential to ensure the effectiveness of rehabilitation process. Therefore, this research aims to understand the portability and flexibility of physiotherapy tools for people with obesity especially in dealing with their job performance. The objective of this study is to identify the physiotherapy tools in the rehabilitation process and to determine the portability and flexibility of the physiotherapy tools for the rehabilitation. Research methods were employed during the process of this study, which includes literature review, product line-up and interviews From this research, portability, and flexibility of the physiotherapy tools for the rehabilitation can help the patient to conduct self rehabat their homes thus boosting their healthy lifestyle. Based on the findings of this study, a new physiotherapy tools need recommended providing an excellent portability and flexibility in terms of the physiotherapy tools for obese patients. Zes Rokman Resources 2017-10-27 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/59112/1/59112_PORTABILITY%20AND%20FLEXIBILITY%20OF%20PHYSIOTHERAPY%20TOOLS.pdf Abdul Rahman, Julaila and Zabidi, Nur Shahirah Nabilah and Kamaruddin, Zumahiran and Awang, Arita Hanim (2017) Portability and flexibility of physiotherapy tools for rehabilitation of people with obesity. In: The 3rd Putrajaya International Conference on Children, Women, Elderly and Disabled People 2017 (PICCWED3, 28th-29th Oct. 2017, Hotel Bangi-Putrajaya, Bangi, Selangor. http://www.piccwed.com/ 978-967-2072-11-9
spellingShingle H10 Societies
Abdul Rahman, Julaila
Zabidi, Nur Shahirah Nabilah
Kamaruddin, Zumahiran
Awang, Arita Hanim
Portability and flexibility of physiotherapy tools for rehabilitation of people with obesity
title Portability and flexibility of physiotherapy tools for rehabilitation of people with obesity
title_full Portability and flexibility of physiotherapy tools for rehabilitation of people with obesity
title_fullStr Portability and flexibility of physiotherapy tools for rehabilitation of people with obesity
title_full_unstemmed Portability and flexibility of physiotherapy tools for rehabilitation of people with obesity
title_short Portability and flexibility of physiotherapy tools for rehabilitation of people with obesity
title_sort portability and flexibility of physiotherapy tools for rehabilitation of people with obesity
topic H10 Societies
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/59112/
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/59112/1/59112_PORTABILITY%20AND%20FLEXIBILITY%20OF%20PHYSIOTHERAPY%20TOOLS.pdf