Figure and Table | Nutrition and Physical Therapy: A Position Paper by the Physical Therapist Section of the Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Nutrition (Secondary Publication)

Table 1. Trends in Organizations and Medical Fee Revisions Related to Physical Therapy and Nutrition.

Pregraduate education curriculum for physical therapist and occupational therapist	Required courses in nutrition (from students enrolled in 2021)
Revision of medical fees	To enhance nutritional management in the rehabilitation wards, the participation of dietitians in rehabilitation plans is mandatory (from 2018) Assignment of a full-time, dedicated dietitian in the rehabilitation wards (from 2020)
The Japan Physical Therapy Association	Established the Section of Nutrition and Swallowing Physical Therapy (2015) Developed into the Japan Society of Nutrition and Swallowing Physical Therapy (2021)
The Japan Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism	Physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language therapists can obtain Nutrition Support Team (NST) Therapist (from 2010)
The Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Nutrition	TNT-rehabilitation (from 2019), Rehabilitation nutrition instructor (from 2019)

Table 2. Physical Therapy Evaluation, Nutritional Diagnosis, and Screening.

	Physical frailty	Sarcopenia		Nutritional status			Cachexia
	J-CHS ⁽⁵³⁾	AWGS 2019 ⁽⁵⁴⁾	EWGSOP2 ⁽⁵⁵⁾	GLIM ⁽²⁶⁾	ASPEN and AND ⁽²⁵⁾	MNA ⁽⁵⁶⁾	Evans ⁽⁵⁷⁾	Fearon ⁽⁵⁸⁾
Muscle mass		◯	◯	◯	◯	◯	◯	◯
Muscle strength	◯	◯	◯	◯ (supplementary)	◯		◯
Physical function	◯	◯	◯
ADL		◯ (case finding)				◯ (gait)
Weight loss	◯	◯ (case finding)		◯		◯	◯	◯
BMI				◯	◯	◯	◯