Elderly persons may benefit from regular physical exercise to maintain or improve their quality of life and health status. Low adherence to physical exercise, however, is often a problem. A new type of videogames, exergames”,involving physical motion of the players has recently been developed and is expected to keep elderly people active. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of a newly developed exergame on ealth benefits such as muscle strength and body balance of elderly people.Exergames are video games that are operated by people moving their bodies. We confirmed that exergames could be used to improve the exercise functions such as muscle strength and walking parameters in the elderly.As video games can be used to continuously, simply, and frequently engage in exercise, they may be a highly useful tools for maintaining exercise function in the elderly.(高齢者の生活の質と健康の状態を支える運動機能を改善するためには、定期的な運動が有効であるが、運動への取り組みは進まないことが問題となる。テレビゲームを用いた運動は、最近展開されて、高齢者にも有用と考える。この研究では、新しく開発したexergameのを用い定期的な運動を実施した結果、下肢筋や歩行能力の改善が認められビデオゲームをもちいた運動の効果が証明された。）
Vol 2 No.1, 38-44
Keizo Sato, Kaoru Kuroki, Syuko Saiki, Ryoichi Nagatomi
