With the development of industrialization information, various musculoskeletal diseases are increasing as many people sit for a long time, or change in fixed posture and lifestyle continue. This phenomenon further stimulates the desire to solve chroni...
With the development of industrialization information, various musculoskeletal diseases are increasing as many people sit for a long time, or change in fixed posture and lifestyle continue. This phenomenon further stimulates the desire to solve chronic diseases and pain in modern people who do not have time. People recognize health care as an important factor in their lives and are looking for various ways to solve these problems. Therapeutic approaches in hospitals or body shape management through experts are in the spotlight, and body shape management includes manipulative therapy, fascia relaxation massage, oil massage, chiropractic, and lymph massage. The purpose of this study is to expect the wide recognition, expansion of the base, and growth potential of many types of manipulative therapy in the future through research on customer body type recognition and satisfaction according to manipulative therapy. This study was conducted from April 12 to April 20, 2023, for adult men and women in their 20s to 60s or older living in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, and a total of 468 copies collected were used as analysis data. The collected data were analyzed using the SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science) WIN 27.0 program, and χ2 (Chi-square) verification and frequency analysis, one-way ANOVA (one-way ANOVA), and Correlation analysis (correlation analysis). First, as a result of examining the use of manipulative therapy according to general characteristics, there were more customers who had received manipulative therapy than those who did not, and the more customers in their 50s and older, female customers, and high-educated customers, and full-time housewives. Second, customers who use manipulative therapy and customers who spend more than 100,000 won on manipulative therapy had higher social awareness of body type than those who did not. Customers who use it three times a month had high self-body recognition and body type recognition, and customers who use manipulative therapy had high health awareness. Third, customers who use manipulative therapy more than four times a month were more satisfied with manipulative therapy than those who use general body care rooms, those who use manipulative therapy more than 100,000 won per month, and those who use manipulative therapy more than two years, those who use general body care rooms more than 10 times a month. Fourth, as a result of examining the relationship between customers' satisfaction with manipulative therapy and body type recognition, the physical and psychological satisfaction of manipulative therapy, and manipulative therapy showed a statistically significant positive correlation with social perception, self-body recognition, health recognition, and body type recognition. The higher the physical and psychological satisfaction of manipulative therapy, and the higher the satisfaction of manipulative therapy, the higher the social perception, self-body perception, health perception, and body type perception. Accordingly, based on the results of this study, it is hoped that the base of more diverse manipulative therapy will be expanded, and more people will be interested in the perception of self-body type, and further research on manipulative therapy will continue.