@article{ref1,
title="Eye-hand coordination of elderly people who practice Tai Chi Chuan",
journal="Journal of the Formosan Medical Association",
year="2008",
author="Pei, Yu-Cheng and Chou, Shih-Wei and Lin, Pay-Shih and Lin, Yin-Chou and Hsu, Tony H. C. and Wong, Alice M. K.",
volume="107",
number="2",
pages="103-110",
abstract="BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of motor control from Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) on eye-hand coordination in the elderly. METHODS: Forty-two elderly people were recruited into this study. People in the TCC group (n = 22) had been practicing TCC regularly for more than 3 years. The control group (n = 20) comprised healthy and active elderly people. Subjects were asked to stroke target sensors in a test device with computer recording. There were three different target sensor sizes (1 cm, 1.5 cm and 2 cm in diameter) for different tests. For each target stroking, the following were recorded and calculated: start and end positions, duration of movement, pause time, peak velocity, and the time to reach peak velocity. RESULTS: The TCC group showed significantly better results in decrease of displacement (p = 0.003), movement time (p = 0.002), pause time (p < 0.001), number of submovements (p = 0.001), and better skewness coefficients (p < 0.001) than the control group. However, the difference in the peak velocity of the TCC and control groups did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.026). CONCLUSION: The elderly TCC group had better results on the eye-hand coordination test than the control elderly group.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0929-6646",
doi="10.1016/S0929-6646(08)60123-0",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0929-6646(08)60123-0"
}