Human performance at old age
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Anatomy and Physiology, Geriatrics, Orthopedics
- Keywords
- Counter Movement Jump, Sports, Fracture
- Copyright
- © 2015 Rittweger
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2015. Human performance at old age. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e1099v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1099v1
Abstract
Force plates are a straightforward tool to assess human acceleration as an indicator of human performance. Understanding of the physical principle, and also of the test instruction is required to arrive at meaingful results and interpretations. Notably, performance and physiology levels can differ. A series of studies in healthy people has yielded that peak jumping power is a robust, ecological measure of performance and physiology. It shows a very pronounced decline with age. Morover, these studies reveal that sports is beneficial for muscles and bones. Some benefits by sports diminish with age (bone, muscle), but fracture reduction by sports extends into 10th decade of life.
Author Comment
This presentation was a contribution to the 2nd Winter Symposium of the "Human Motion Project" and it is part of "Human Motion Project" PeerJ collection