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Purpose: To assess childcare problems that guardians of infants and toddlers face, by analyzing transcripts from telephone child care counseling services. Methods: Contents of 3,535 telephone childcare counseling sessions, within an 18-month period between July 1, 2007 and December 30, 2008 by a child care counseling specialist nurse, were analyzed using SPSS(v19.0) with frequency, mean, standard deviation and Chi-square test. Results: The participants were mainly stay-at-home guardians with their first child aged <1 year. The most common reason for the call was feeding and nutrition, followed by abnormal symptoms, common childcare knowledge, excretion, worrisome behavior, growth and development, sleep, and vaccination. The reasons significantly differed depending on the age of the child. For 1–4-year-old children were feeding and nutrition, abnormal symptoms, and worrisome behavior. whereas those for >4-year-old children, worrisome behavior was the most common reason, and the number of calls and repeat counseling rate showed an increasing trend with every quarter. Conclusions: Telephone childcare counseling services are easy and effective for helping guardians of infants and toddlers, who face childcare problems. Therefore, legal and regulatory supports for national programs are necessary to train and hire specialists to establish these services.

Background: This study aims to implement lumbar stabilization exercises by using gym ball s and mats and exercises by utilizing a virtual reality program to normal adults in their tw enties for four weeks and to identify effects on balance ability. Methods: Eighteen students (M:6, F:12) studying in H University in Gwangju were randoml y placed to three groups: six students in the control group, six students in the gym ball an d mat exercise group, and six students in the virtual reality program group. Lumbar stabilization exercises and the virtual reality program were implemented for thirty minutes a day and three times a week for four weeks in total. The control group carried o ut only daily activities. Limit of Stability (LOS) was measured before and after experiment s to check balance. In order to compare differences between values before and after experi ments, Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test was carried out. In order to identify differences among groups for changes of values, Mann-Whitney U Test and Kruskal-Wallis Test were carrie d out. Results: The findings are as follows. 1) There was no significant difference among LOSes of the groups before exercises (p>.05). 2) After exercises for four weeks, LOS of the lu mbar stabilization exercise group increased even though the increase was not statistically si gnificant than that of the control group. The virtual reality program group showed a signific ant increase in LOS compared to that of the control group (p<.05)(Table 4). Conclusion: The above findings confirmed that the virtual reality program is effective in imp roving balance ability of normal adults.

Background : this study is for the provision of basic information on career searc h and career guidance for the students whose major is physiotherapy through sur vey and analysis of career preference related to gender and grades Methods : 900 students majoring in physiotherapy from 16 collegs and univ. amo ng total 77 college and university in korea responded the survey and 738 of 900 were used for this study. for the statistic analysis of the survey, freqency analy sis and χ2 test were conducted using Window SPSS 17.0 Results : The result of this study is that career preference was different according to gender. Although, both male and female preferred Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therap y the most, male respondants preferred Sports Physical Therapy and female responda nts preferred Neurologic Physical Therapy in second place. Second, it had slightly sig nificance in interesting subject of Physiotherapy by grade. Conclusion : In conclusion, school life and gender influence to career preference.

Background: This study aimed at investigate effects on jump rope exercise and running exercise in everyday life, aerobic exercise, how affect change of lung capacity and body composition of men and women students. Metohds: The target of this study are grades 1 and 2 enrolled student of twenty at the University of G. who trained into two groups: the jump rope and treadmill exercise at 30 minutes a day and four days a week during 4 weeks, also has been measured before and after exercise make use of lung capacity measuring instrument and INBODY. Results: Both Jump rope and treadmill groups significantly decreased the percentage of body fat and significantly increased in the force expiratory volume and forced vital capacity.(ρ <0.00) Conclusion: Therefore, jump rope exercise program than the treadmill are more effective in order to obtain the effect in lung capacity.

Background: The purpose of this study is to suggest comparison of balance abilit y according to body mass index (BMI) in healthy adults. Methods: Twenty subjects (ten male and ten female subjects) were participated and classified as normal weight (n=10) or overweight (n=10), according to the BMI. The balance ability was measured by limit of stability, postural sway, funct ional reaching test (FRT) and timed up and go test (TUG). Results: In the left back, right back, back, right, left and total area of limit of st ability, there were statistically significant differences between the both groups. T here were significant difference in static balance, FRT and TUG. Conclusion: These results show that obese students have more lose of balance a bility compare with normal weight adults. Therefore obese subjects have to effor t to losing weight and doing strength and balance exercise.

It is important to maintain good habitual posture in daily life. Abnormal body ali gnment is provoked by excessive tension of bad posture. And these sympt om is connected with other disorder of the body like back pain, cervical pa in and shoulder pain through inaccurate body mechanism in daily life. The post ural control system is divided into three basic functional components for a ssessment : 1) musculoskeletal components, 2) motor coordination compone nts, and 3) sensory organization components. It is proposed that a systemic functional understanding of human balance is critical to effective programs for core stability exercise. We suggest that core stability exercise is effectiv e in the postural control in the persons.