The Effectiveness of Providing Yoga Exercises to Reduce the Risk of Falling

Abstract

The elderly are a group of people who experience the aging process as life goes on and cannot be avoided. The aging process can be a biological factor which occurs continuously and causes anatomical, physiological and biochemical changes in tissues that affect body function. Yoga exercise is one of the interventions that can improve strength, flexibility, endurance, balance, and functional capacity in both healthy and impaired conditions. Yoga exercise has a good effect on individuals who experience musculoskeletal disorders and cognitive impairment. Yoga exercise can be done in any age group and has many variations of movements so that not all movements can be done by the elderly and adjustments are needed. The clinical question arises, "Can yoga exercise reduce the risk of falls in the elderly?"To be able to answer this question, an evidence search was conducted on 3 databases, namely Google Scholar and Scopus. The keywords used were "Elderly OR Older People" AND "Yoga Exercise OR Yoga Asanas" AND "Balance OR Falls Risk with the inclusion criteria of full text articles, with elderly participants and the provision of yoga exercise. Then a critical appraisal assessment was carried out on 10 published journals, 4 journals were excluded because they did not meet the inclusion criteria, so that 6 journals were obtained that could be synthesized. The journal can be concluded that the provision of oga exercise is effective in reducing the risk of falls in the elderly. This study uses parameters to measure balance, namely the Tinneti performance Orinted Mobility Asessment (POMA), Berg Balance Scale (BBS), Timed Up and Go (TUG)