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http://dx.doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2017.8.3.253

The Effect of a 12 Week-Yoga Exercise on Body Composition, Flexibility and Gloom in the visually impaired Elderly  

Kim, Han-Cheol (Department of Special Physical Education, Yeungnam Univesity)
Lee, Young-Mi (Graduate school, Yeungnam Univesity)
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Journal of the Korea Convergence Society / v.8, no.3, 2017 , pp. 253-263 More about this Journal
Abstract
It was conducted that yoga practice for the visually impaired Elderly has an influence on boby composition, flexibility and depression disease. Also, It has a purpose to provide a method of movement and basic materials for them. The 18 seventy-year-old men or women without any experience of yoga from the visually impaired association of the elderly in G city were participated in a training yoga session. This experiment was performed by simple random sampling with the nine of treat group (yoga training) and the nine of control group. The data was analyzed by covariance analysis with 0.05 significant level. The treat group were conducted twice a week to exercise (60mins) for twelve weeks. In conclusion, it is proved that yoga exercise has a positive effect on body composition, flexibility and depression disease.
Keywords
Visually impaired; The aged; Yoga; Physical ability for behavior; Depressive disorder; Flexibility;
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