TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Eye-hand coordination of elderly people who practice Tai Chi Chuan
JO  - Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
A1  - Pei, Yu-Cheng
A1  - Chou, Shih-Wei
A1  - Lin, Pay-Shih
A1  - Lin, Yin-Chou
A1  - Hsu, Tony H. C.
A1  - Wong, Alice M. K.
SP  - 103
EP  - 110
VL  - 107
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0929-6646
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0929-6646(08)60123-0
ID  - ref1
ER  -