Body Awareness and Aerobic Exercise: Telomere Impact

"Body Awareness Therapy is a patient-centered physiotherapy approach that also includes mental health, focusing on movement awareness training. This therapy primarily consists of exercises aimed at improving postural disorders, balance, and muscle tension. It aims to help individuals experience and accept bodily responses while increasing coping strategies.~The therapy includes body scanning, integration of sound and movement, stretching exercises, and exercises focusing on body alignment and midline orientation.~Floor exercises: body scanning, stretching, strength accumulation, sound resonance.~Seated exercises: body alignment, trunk rotation, head and neck movements. Standing exercises: support surface perception, midline elevation and lowering, bilateral arm movements, rotation, one-legged balance, voice exercises, and group movements."

"The continuous exercise protocol specified by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) will be applied under supervision on a treadmill. The exercise duration will follow ACSM recommendations, starting at 30 minutes in the first week and increasing to 45 minutes by the 12th week.~Exercise intensity will be assessed using the target heart rate method (220 - age). The intensity of aerobic exercise will be set at a moderate level (64-77% HRmax), according to ACSM guidelines.~During exercise, heart rate will be monitored through a heart rate monitoring device. A 5-minute warm-up and a 5-minute cool-down exercise will be performed before and after each session, with an intensity of 50-60% of the maximum heart rate."