[HN Gopher] Dance mat-style game helps stop older people falling
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Dance mat-style game helps stop older people falling
Author : zeristor
Score : 32 points
Date : 2024-02-03 19:31 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.newscientist.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.newscientist.com)
| vyrotek wrote:
| https://archive.is/scpfB
| leereeves wrote:
| The paper:
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| https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02739-0
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| And a non-paywalled article from the university:
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| https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/gamified-home-exerc...
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| The result:
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| > The rate of falls reported monthly over 12 months--the primary
| outcome of the trial--was significantly reduced in the exergame
| training group compared with the control group (incidence rate
| ratio = 0.74, 95% confidence interval = 0.56-0.98)
| agumonkey wrote:
| Aside from that, having health issues even if younger, I was
| surprised how valuable deadlift (with 5 to 10kg kettle bells) and
| squats were important for your body. The ability to go down
| softly without efforts or joint pain is such a relief.
| maccard wrote:
| Pretty much every study ever has concluded that some exercise
| >>>>> no exercise, and also that moderate exercise >>>>> some
| exercise.
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| Total anecdote, but aside from injuries and a brief period of
| wildly overtraining for university rowing, I have _never_, in
| my life thought after exercising "I feel worse than I did
| before starting". It's basically the magic pill.
| agumonkey wrote:
| yeah sure, physical exercise is vital, and even a few minutes
| everyday is a great boost for a lot of things in you
|
| but I used to run / bike, and this didn't address the same
| movement as deep squat / dead lift affect
| TomK32 wrote:
| Running plus cycling is quite a feat already, if you do it
| serious. I'm a cyclist and 15 months into running I still
| dislike it but also know it's a good thing for me.
| agumonkey wrote:
| I was a runner first, but years made my knee joints
| brittle, and biking is amazing to avoid pain there. And
| talking about knee joints, single leg squats are magic to
| restore them a bit. I was quite surprised.
| maccard wrote:
| I think that further reinforces the point - There's an
| enormous boost from doing anything at all. In most things,
| there's a pretty significant falloff in terms of the reward
| of what you're doing but with exercise, you get that for
| pretty much every step along the way. For you it's
| deadlifts, for me most recently it was bench presses
| relieving tension in my chest and upper shoulders and neck
| which was giving me headaches. I'm sure I'd get a similar
| return if I focused on deep squats or deadlifts for a
| little bit.
| techwizrd wrote:
| I would be very interested to see how this compares across
| demographics (think NHANES). I wonder if it could be turned into
| a check where clinicians measure baseline performance and use it
| to track reduction in performance over time. If it works, it
| could be an inexpensive way to identify individuals at risk of a
| fall before their motor control degrades enough to be at high
| risk.
| nonrandomstring wrote:
| An occupational therapist test I've seen is to lift one foot
| off the floor slightly and remain balanced with eyes closed.
| Time is the measure and anything over 10 seconds is "healthy".
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Reminds me, I miss StepMania.
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| Off to build a new dance pad....
| TomK32 wrote:
| Gamifying fitness works fine, peer pressure does too. The gym I
| (41, male) go has quite a lot of pensioners due to the wide range
| of courses they offer. It's quite normal there to have a yoga
| course with people ranging ages from 20 to 70+.
| imhoguy wrote:
| This reminded me my grandparents who used to go to dance parties
| up to their 80s. They didn't have any falls I recall until they
| got onto deathbed.
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