DEVELOPMENT OF THE EXERCISE APPLYING THAI WISDOM TO ENHANCE BALANCE OF THE ELDERLY
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This research aims to develop the exercise applying Thai wisdom to enhance the balance of the elderly. The research was divided into three phases. The first phase, the model of the exercise applying Thai wisdom to enhance the balance of the elderly was drafted. The second phase, the quality of the model was determined by five professionals and tried out with fifteen elderly aged between 60-70 years old within eight weeks and the third phase, the effects of the model were investigated by quasi-experimental design. The samples were divided into two groups by using simple random sampling with fifteen elderly in the experimental group and fifteen elderly in the control group. The experiment of this research was conducted through eight weeks, three days a week. The instruments used in this research were guidebook of the exercise applying Thai wisdom to enhance the balance of the elderly and the balance test for the elderly. The data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation, mean rank, Wilcoxon Matched-pairs Signed-ranks Test and Mann Whitney U Test at the .05 level of significance.
The results of the study were as follows: 1) The exercise applying Thai wisdom to enhance the balance of the elderly consisted of: 1.1) Frequency of the exercise, three days a week, 1.2) Intensity of the exercise divided into two levels: light level and moderate level, 1.3) Time of the exercise, 30 - 45 minutes, 1.4) Type of the exercise, non-locomotor movement exercise and pause and move exercise, 1.5) Step of the exercise divided into three steps: The first step was warm-up phase with-in 5 - 10 minutes consisting of the 8 motion movement. The second step was workout phase consisting of the 18 motion movement, 1 - 4 weeks with 10 motion movement and 5 - 8 weeks with 8 motion movement. The last step was cool-down phase within 5-10 minutes consisting of the 8 motion movement, 2) After the experiment, the total scores of the exercise applying Thai wisdom to enhance the balance of the elderly in the experimental group were significantly higher than that before the experiment at the level of .05, and the balance of the elderly in experimental group was significantly higher than that in the control group at the level of .05.
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