Exercise in the Elderly: Jinkangkong Exercise

Authors

  • อารีย์ เสนีย์ วิทยาลัยพยาบาลกองทัพบก

Keywords:

Jinkangkong exercise, elderly

Abstract

At the present, Thailand has become an aging society. Therefore, taking care and improving health of elderly in physical, mental, social and environmental health are important. When the age increases, diseases begin to follow, especially chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. These chronic diseases can be prevented by changing health behaviors appropriately. Exercise is the vital health behavior and it is necessary for everybody. The aim of this paper was to promote jinkangkong exercise more widely in Thai society. It is a kind of exercises that everyone can do particularly, elderly people because jinkangkong exercise is a slow moving exercise and it is not effect to joint injury or other parts of the body. Furthermore, the studies showed that jinkangkong exercise promoted elderly in physiology, reduced blood pressure in elderly with hypertension and release stress. Therefore, jinkangkong exercise promote both physical and mental health among the elderly. In the future research, jinkangkong exercise should be applied more in various groups to make people healthier and increase their quality of life.

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21-12-2018

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เสนีย์ อ. Exercise in the Elderly: Jinkangkong Exercise. J Royal Thai Army Nurses [Internet]. 2018 Dec. 21 [cited 2024 Sep. 27];19(3):71-6. Available from: https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JRTAN/article/view/161498

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Vol. 19 No. 3 (2018): September - December

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Academic articles

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