Effects of the Eye-Hand Co-ordination Exercise with Modern Music on Fitness Balance based of Elderly People

Abstract

Background and Objective: The elderly people has a deterioration of  physical performance of the body, especially the balance which is one of the risk factors for falls in the elderly. The exercise will be one of the factors that could help protect falls, so the elderly must do exercise continuously and in an appropriate length of time. The researcher has created a safe exercise program that can be performed in every area, saving and having fun. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to compare balance ability of the elderly between the experimental and the control group.

Method:  This study was the quasi-experimental design, and the 60 healthy elderly, whose ages are between 60-69 years old, were divided into the experimental and control groups by 30 elderly in each group. The experimental group received the training of the eye-hand coordination exercise with modern music for 12 weeks while the control group live normally. Both groups had balance tests including 8-Foot Up-and-Go Test. The elderly were tested before training, after 6-week training and after 12-week training. The two-way repeated measures ANOVA was used to analyze the data.

Results: It was found that the balance ability resulted from the 8-Foot Up-and-Go Test between the experimental and the control groups had the average scores at the significant different (F = 13.95, p < 0.05). Moreover, the average scores of before training, after 6-week training and 12-week training were significantly different at the level of 0.05 (F = 33.95, p <0.05), so it can be mentioned that the experimental group had better balance development than the control group.  The variables of  times and groups were statistical significance correlated (F = 19.18, p <0.05).

Conclusion: The training of the eye-hand coordination exercise with modern music for 12 weeks can increase the balance of movable and immovable abilities properly.