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Selective Maintenance of Motor Performance in Older Adults From Long-Lasting Sport Practice
- Source :
- Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), instacron:USP
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2016.
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Abstract
- Decline of motor performance in older individuals affects their quality of life. Understanding the contribution of sport-related training in advanced ages might help to attenuate motor performance decay as one gets older. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the extent to which long-lasting training in running or sport-specific skills during old age preserves motor performance in different motor tasks.Older runners and tennis players with at least 10 years of training were assessed as were age-matched and young exercisers. Performance was evaluated for 6 motor tasks requiring different functions of sensorimotor control expected to decline with aging.Analysis revealed that runners had increased aerobic fitness in comparison with the other older participants and that they presented similar performance to older exercisers in the motor tasks. Tennis players outperformed the other groups of older participants on coincident timing and simple reaction time and achieved similar performance to the young group on the timing task.These results suggest selective maintenance of task-specific processing through extensive practice of tennis-related motor skills in older adults.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Long lasting
Aging
medicine.medical_specialty
Selective maintenance
Physical fitness
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Running
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
GERIATRIA
0302 clinical medicine
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Quality of life
Task Performance and Analysis
Reaction Time
medicine
Humans
Aerobic exercise
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Postural Balance
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Psychomotor learning
business.industry
030229 sport sciences
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Skill development
Sensorimotor control
Motor Skills
Physical Fitness
Practice, Psychological
Nephrology
Tennis
Quality of Life
Female
business
Psychology
human activities
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21683824 and 02701367
- Volume :
- 87
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4b16e42b10c0660aec01794a24454274