Aquatic exercise and promoting health for older adults

Aging causes the undesirable physiological changes and incline physical function. By 2050, the world’s population aged 60 years and older is expected to total 2 billion, up from 900 million in 2015. Older adults have more limited ability for exercising while they are greatly eager to do exercise and sustain their health and fitness. The knowledge about aquatic exercise and unique properties of water will provide proper designing rehabilitation and low-impact exercise programs for people who have limitation to exercise in land. Moreover, for musculoskeletal chronic pains, therapeutic suggestion is a paradox to take rest and decrease the physical activities while resting will make the patient gain more weight and become obese and the diseases worse. Meanwhile, the physical properties of water not only can reduce the effect of body weight on the joints stress and risk of injury or fall;

Author(s): Fariba Hossien Abadi

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