The study detects agility in elderly tennis players

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Sport is another “tool” when it comes to healthy aging. In this sense, the study of the human motorcycle laboratory of PUC-PR (pontifical Catholic University of Paraná) has detected agility in tennis elderly.

Understand the discovery of the elderly tennis

The PUC-PR team compared a group of volunteers with an average age of 23 years old, who did not perform with exercise for over a year, with people over the age of 65 who played tennis for over two years three times a week and for at least an hour.

The participants were subjected to the light ones who made a person lose their balance. The median researchers how many thousandths of the muscles were slow to react, how much a body moved and with what speed.

Therefore, an individual has recovered the balance for reflected action, that is, it is not initially aware and when the nervous system generates a standard called automatic or voluntary postural response, which requires time, because before it must realize that something is wrong and think about what to do.

The analysis showed that the elderly tennis who presented the same response as young people. This means that everyone has reacted to balance disorders with less than 200 milliseconds, which characterized an automatic reaction.

Source: Terra

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