Effect of Exergaming Program Versus Neuromuscular Exercise in Elderly People With Motor Cognitive Risk Syndrome

The Neuromuscular Exercise Training program will be carried out in groups of 5 people for 45 minutes/2 days/8 weeks. The exercise program will consist of warm-up, loading and cooling phases. The warm-up phase will consist of flexibility exercises, mini squat and roll down etc. exercises to prepare the individual for exercise. The loading phase will consist of a cognitive-based neuromuscular exercise program aiming to provide stabilization, increase in balance, neuroplasticity and motor control and is planned to include strengthening exercises, stabilization exercises, balance-proprioceptive exercises and neuromuscular control exercise training with visual feedback. The exercises will progress gradually from easy to difficult with increasing repetition and set numbers.

In our study, Xbox 360 Kinect game console and Kinect sensor will be used within the scope of Exergaming. Exergaming program will be carried out in groups of 5 people for 45 minutes/ 2 days/ 8 weeks. It will consist of warm-up, loading and cooling phases. The games to be used for the Exergaming program were selected from games that include locomotor and cognitive repetitive tasks. Just Dance, a movement-based dance/rhythm game accompanied by dance choreography, will be preferred in the warm-up phase. In the loading phase, games such as Reflex Ridge, River Rush, Ralleyball from Microsoft Kinect Adventures game series for lower extremity functions; Bowling, Table Tennis, Swim Out, Fruit Ninja from Microsoft Kinect Sports game series for upper extremity functions will be included. As the sessions progress, game levels will be gradually made more difficult, progressing from easy to difficult.