Paper Info
Title
Simple tai chi exercise for improving elderly postural stability via complexity index analysis
Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to investigate twice a day simple 9-step tai chi effects of the center of pressure (COP) and physiological signals of elderly people. Data are collected from the COP signals, electromyography (EMG), and pulse oximetry for 1 min for the period of 12 weeks. The COP signals are analyzed using multivariate empirical mode decomposition and multivariate multiscale entropy to work out and compare the complexity index (CI). Subjects in this experiment are over 65 years old who are divided into 11 men and 7 women; the average age is 74 8.18 years. In conclusion, it is found that tai chi exercise can improve human body balance by just walking some simple steps in our experiment. However, we cannot find any effect or improvement in the pulse oximetry and EMG signals analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s10015-014-0193-6
Artificial Life and Robotics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Center of pressure (COP), Electromyography (EMG), Multivariate empirical mode decomposition (MEMD), Multivariate multiscale entropy (MMSE), Complexity index (CI), Six-minute walk test, Time-up-and-go, Tai chi
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1614-7456
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cheng-Wei Huang100.34
Wei-Hsin Chen200.34
Heng-Hui Chu300.34
Bernard C. Jiang400.34
Maysam Abbod5387.15
Jiann Shing Shieh622428.44