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Breakdown: Several taboos about exercise for the elderly!

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  elderly The functions of hearing, vision, touch, and balance organs are also reduced, manifested by slow response, low sensitivity, and poor coordination. According to the characteristics of these physiological changes of the elderly, the exercise items chosen by the elderly and the intensity of exercise are determined. exercise The following five taboos are also worthy of attention by the elderly.
  
  (1) Avoid bearing weight and holding your breath: Elderly people often have emphysema. When holding your breath with force, pneumothorax may occur due to alveolar rupture. Holding your breath will also increase the burden on the heart, causing chest tightness and palpitations. When you hold your breath, the pressure in the chest increases, and the amount of blood returned to the heart to support the brain decreases, which can easily lead to dizziness, dizziness, or even fainting. After holding your breath, the amount of blood returned to your heart suddenly increases, your blood pressure rises, and you are prone to cerebrovascular accidents. Therefore, the elderly should not participate in sports that require holding your breath, such as weightlifting, tug-of-war, hard qigong, pull-ups, rope climbing, etc.
  
  (2) Avoid intense competition: No matter what sports the elderly participate in, the focus is on participation and fitness. They should not be competitive or compete with others. Otherwise, fierce competition will not only be physically unbearable, but also prone to collisions, falls, excitement, and accidents.
  
  (3) Avoid rushing for success: The elderly have poor adaptability to physical load, so they should have a longer adaptation period during exercise. They must proceed in a sequence and avoid rushing.
  
  (4) Avoid swaying and spinning: The elderly have poor coordination, weak balance ability, weak leg strength, slow walking, and slow limb movement. Skating, swinging and various rotating movements should be taboo, otherwise they are prone to danger.
  
  (5) Avoid changing the head position excessively: the elderly should not lower their heads, bend over, raise their heads, bend left or right, and do not perform head-down inversion movements. The reason is that these movements will cause blood to flow to the head, and the blood vessel walls of the elderly will become hard and have poor elasticity, which may easily cause blood vessel rupture and cause cerebral hemorrhage. When the normal posture is restored, blood flows rapidly to the trunk and lower limbs, and the brain undergoes anemia , black eyes, unsteady standing, and even falling down.

Breakdown: Several taboos about exercise for the elderly!

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