We thus determined associations between physical fitness and yearlong pedometer/accelerometer assessments of the quantity and quality of habitual physical activity in healthy older adults. [read more]
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Objective: To evaluate physical strength for activities of daily living for a group of elderly who are healthy and living independently, testing with the Functional Daily Activity Test and the Health Survey (SF-36v2) was done, to examine whether an exercise program would contribute to the promotion of health maintenance or not. [read more]
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The purpose of this study was to clarify how brain function is related to the muscle and to be able to aid future exercise prescription. [read more]
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The present study examined the effects of aging on the execution of a bimanual coordination task in a classical phase transition paradigm in which coordination patterns (in-phase and antiphase) and movement frequency were manipulated. [read more]
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The purpose of this study was to determine the usefulness of a color-changeable chewing gum to evaluate masticatory performance in community-dwelling elderly persons. [read more]
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the management of Masters Koshien by analyzing the contents of articles that were published between November 2004 and August 2007 that contained information related to the Masters Koshien. [read more]
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between knee extensor muscle strength and the 30-s chair stand test (30-s CST) in elderly adults with different general health status and living in different communities in Taiwan. [read more]
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The objective was to test the effects of proper diet and exercise training in obese women on biological age (“vital age”), an index of comprehensive health status, and metabolic syndrome improvement in response to weight reduction. [read more]
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This is the introduction to a keynote address in which Kiyoji Tanaka discusses how his hospital-based successful aging program has contributed to active aging for patients with chronic diseases such as CHD, stroke, hypertension, COPD, diabetes, and obesity. [read more]
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In this study, we describe the characteristics of posture control seen in modern Japanese people based on posturography from postural stability and instability. Using physical therapy and exercise therapy procedures, we also attempt anatomical and physiological aspects about the stimulation the affects the posture control from the change of the postural balance before and after the experiment. [read more]
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