Open AccessEffectiveness of a machine-assisted healthy physical fitness promotion program for community elderly
Author(s) -
Ya-Hsien Wang,
NanYung Hsu,
Huan-Yang Huang,
Chen-Chi Tsai,
PoJung Pan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of the chinese medical association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.535
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1728-7731
pISSN - 1726-4901
DOI - 10.1097/jcma.0000000000000308
Subject(s) - medicine , grip strength , physical fitness , physical therapy , waist , test (biology) , body mass index , functional training , gerontology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , paleontology , pathology , biology
Maintaining physical fitness is important for health of the elderly. How to implement an effective and efficient model is a practical issue. A healthy physical fitness promotion program with machine-assisted exercises was designed for elderly and executed in a community in 2015 and 2016. The program was implemented for 10 to 12 weeks with two (group 1) or three (group 2) sessions per week, and functional fitness tests were conducted before, at the end, and 3 months after the training. This study is to investigate the effectiveness of machine-assisted physical fitness promotion program for the community elderly.