Chomlak
Kongart
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Major Project
: Draft 2
Effect of
Hatha –Yoga Program on a Group with Alzheimer Disease
1. Summary
of the paper with citation
Gallego et al. (2011)
conducted
effect of hatha-yoga on , flexibility and equilibrium was
evident. As people get older, these capacities are
very important because articulations become
rigid, and it is more probable to fell. According to
these was a patient who did not present any
change, the only person who did not attend sessions
and suffered more physical deterioration.
Some reported that Hatha-yoga poses increase
flexibility (Terri L., Gibbons L., 2003).
Equilibrium and
flexibility improvement make possible to improve in other aspects such as
Instrumental functionality. From the caregivers report, it
can be established that patients
started to get
dressed and stand up, sit down faster; moreover, to go into or out of the car
more easily.
Besides, these patients become tougher because they can walk faster, get less
tired and have less
possibility of falling down. In spite of the equilibrium poses difficulty,
participants got a
good performance without help. The
healthy aged between 60 and 75 years
old have a
prevalence ranging from 15% to 30% of having a fall. However, this percentage
increases in
people over 71 years old. So, having a fall is one of the main causes of
disability
in the aged
(Manoux et al.,2005)
One of the features of the program was
precisely the simplicity of the instructions.
Additionally,
repeated practice and visual feedback, which are the two variables that have
been considered as
important in the relearning of motor skills people with dementia
(Chapman et al.,2005). In fact, Mangone(2004) suggest that because Alzheimer’s patients
have problem with
episodic memory, constant and consistent practice is more effective for
the reason of the
repeated execution of the same motor program does not require an intact
episodic memory,
or other skills that can be impaired in this population. The patients in
this
program were able
to acquire the movements positions by a constant repetition, without
showing awareness
of learning from them. This ability of implicit learning, which is
preserved in
Alzheimer’s patients, can be used as a starting point in non pharmacological
intervention
programs.
2.Limitations or
problems are listed and explained
The following limitations are important
to consider in work:
1. To used hetero applied instruments. The
person who answered pre-test and
post-test
2. Home extra sessions were not developed by
all the participants.
3. Some instruments had a ceiling, which made
it not possible to clarify quantitative
changes exactly
4. There were not : waiting for a control group
and aerobic control group.
3 Strength of this
study are noted
The strength of this research has
shown that the underlying neuron anatomical system
Responsible for
procedural memory is independent of declarative memory; and, therefore,
Patients with
Alzheimer’s can acquire motor, perceptual and cognitive skills. Procedural
learning and
implicit memory, kept until last stages of Alzheimer, is an opportunity of
learning a
physical activity routine which implies the execution of motor skills. Changes
produced by skills
practice are the result of moving from an attention processing situation
to an automatic
processing one.
Reference
Chapman D,
Marshall S, Strine T, Anda R, Moore M (2005). Dementia and Its
Implication for public health.3: 1-3.
Mangone CA (2004) Clinical heterogeneity of Alzheimer’s
disease. Different clinical
Profiles can predict the progression rate. Rev Neurol 38:
675-681.
Manoux A, Hillsdon
M, Brunner E.(2005) Effects of physical activity on cognitive
Functioning in middle age: Evidence from the Whitehall II
prospective cohort study.
American Journal of Public Health;
95:2252-2258.
Teri L., Gibbon L.(2003) Exercise plus behavioral management in
Patient with
Alzheimer Disease. A randomized
controlled trial. Journal of the American Medical
Association; 290: 2015-2022.
