@article{Mahat_Ahmad_2017, place={Arau, Malaysia}, title={Selection of the Best Thermal Massage Treatment for Diabetes by using Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process}, volume={2}, url={https://jcrinn.com/index.php/jcrinn/article/view/25}, abstractNote={<div><em>Diabetes is a condition in which the human blood glucose (sugar) level is abnormally high due</em></div> <div><em>to the lack of insulin produced by the pancreas. As diabetes has been claimed to be a disease</em></div> <div><em>that is incurable, researchers have come out with numerous alternati</em></div> <div><em>ves in making it curable</em></div> <div><em>and one of them is thermal massage treatment. This treatment refers to the application of</em></div> <div><em>chiropractic where it focuses on realigning the spine where diabetes is claimed to be related</em></div> <div><em>to the misalignment of thoracic 7 (T7). The obj</em></div> <div><em>ective of this study is to identify and select the</em></div> <div><em>best and most effective thermal massage treatment session(s) required for both T1D and T2D</em></div> <div><em>patients of different high glucose level in the blood to be reduced to the normal glucose level</em></div> <div><em>by using thermal m</em></div> <div><em>assager. This study is conducted for the diabetic patients who receive</em></div> <div><em>treatments from Ceragem Healthcare Centre on how to optimise their thermal massage</em></div> <div><em>treatments to normalise their glucose level. Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is</em></div> <div><em>utilised in t</em></div> <div><em>his type of selection problem mainly due to the reliable results produced for the</em></div> <div><em>imprecise and uncertain preferences of the users in which able to be expressed as a fuzzy set</em></div> <div><em>(triangular fuzzy number). The findings indicated that the most significant crit</em></div> <div><em>eria for effective</em></div> <div><em>thermal massage is determined by the “number of treatment session (per day)” where the best</em></div> <div><em>thermal massage treatment is derived from the normalised fuzzy weight of both criteria and</em></div> <div><em>sub</em></div> <div><em>-</em></div> <div><em>criteria.</em></div>}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Computing Research and Innovation}, author={Mahat, Norpah and Ahmad, Syafiah}, year={2017}, month={Mar.}, pages={23–28} }