EC Orthopaedics

Introduction: The research constitutes a study of the relationship between the practice of systematic physical activity and cognitive functions in the elderly.

Objective: To characterize the relationship between the practice of systematic physical activity and cognitive functions in a group of older adults of the Provincial Center of Sports Medicine of Villa Clara.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out, comprising 20 practitioners of the Health Promotion Group, of chronic pathologies, of the Provincial Center of Sports Medicine of Villa Clara, with a practice time of variable physical activity between 2 months and 10 years 90% of the practitioners had a history of high blood pressure and only 10% diabetes mellitus.

Results: The result found that attentive, motor and long-term memory functions show statistically significant differences, which allows to infer that systematic physical activity stimulates and energizes the state of cognitive functions, from 1 year of practice, in the group under study. Keywords: Physical Activity; Cognitive Functions; Elderly

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