Tongue-strengthening exercises (TSE) using a device have been proposed as an intervention for improving tongue strength and endurance. However, devices for TSE have been expensive and difficult to manipulate and are not commonly used in home or clinical settings. This study therefore aimed to investigate whether tongue-strengthening self-exercises (TSsE) using a tongue-strengthening self-exercise tool at home can improve tongue strength in healthy older adults. This study included 27 participants (exercise group, η = 16, 7 men, 9 women, median age 84.5 years; control group, n = 11, 2 men, 9 women, median age 79.0 years). Exercises in the exercise group consisted of pushing the anterior tongue against the hard palate 30 times, 3 times a day, 5 days a week, for 8 weeks using a tongue-strengthening self-exercise tool. This tool is available in five levels of hardness. The most suitable hardness of the tool for each participant was calculated based on 60% of maximum tongue pressure (MTP) during the first 2 weeks of the training period and 80% of MTP for the remainder of the training period, as assessed using a tongue pressure-measuring device. The exercise group showed a significant improvement of 4.1 kPa in MTP (an 11.53% increase) and 4.53 s in endurance of tongue pressure (ETP) (a 99.86% increase). Furthermore, adherence in the exercise group was 99.2%. In conclusion, performing TSsE for 8 weeks was effective for increasing MTP and ETP in healthy older adults. This indicates that TSsE may be useful in older individuals at home to prevent age-related tongue muscle weakness.
Objective: Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) was an examination to measure the level of atherosclerosis in many medical institution. Previous report showed that Risk factor of atherosclerosis as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, aging, smoking made the PWV fast. On the other hand, PWV in non-smoking youths were correlative with obese and hyperlipidemia (Internal Med. 2005), and familial history (our data at ESH 2013). Correlation PWV with other risk factors and its preventional methods were not elucidated. Here, in this study, first, we paid attention to the relationship between PWV and Familial History (FH) and Blood Pressure (BP) in Healthy, non-smoking youths without abnormal data of blood test in medical examination (blood sugar, lipid, liver and renal function). And next, we noticed to the difference in risk mitigation due to the presence or absence of exercise habits. Design and method: Non-smoking healthy youths, 72 men and 30 women with chance fitness habits (CFH), 36 men and 15 women with daily fitness habits (DFH), without abnormal data of blood test in medical examination was entry in this study. Medical examination by interview was done to all of them. If he or she had a familial history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease in parents, it counted as two point, and also in grandparents, as one point by each risk factor. And in this study, called three former risk factors as “disease risk (DR)”, two latter risk factors as “outbreak risk (OR)”. Results: Mean PWV was faster in men and women with CFH than those with DFH. Next these data into ascending-order, and devided into “low PWV (LP)” and “high PWV (HP)” bound on the median. PWV recorded HP is faster than recorded LP with CFH and DFH, recorded HP is faster than recorded LP with CFH but these difference in men and women with DFH has tendency to shirink statistically. Conclusions: We conclude that familial history and BP may correlate with PWV in healthy youths with chance fitness habits especially in HP. But daily fitness habits pretend to rise their BP.
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