| （1.School of Sports Science，Shenyang Normal University，Shenyang 110034，China；2.Department of Physical Education，Dalian University of Technology，Dalian 116024，China；3.Department of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise，Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine，Sendai 980-8575，Japan） Abstract: In order to probe into the interrelations between walking pace and elderly people’s sports capacities and medical expenses, the authors made a study by basing their analysis subject on 590 national medical insurance pay-ing elderly people older than 70 (in Japan), and by means of field investigation, measurement and mathematical sta-tistics. By dynamically observing average medical expenses per month per person in 4 years, the authors found that 3 sports capacity indexes (lower limb muscle stretching power, balancing capacity, agility quality) of the elderly people in the high walking pace group were significantly better than those of the elderly people in the medium walking pace group and the low walking pacing group, especially, medical expenses showed a trend of decreasing as the walking pace capacity increased. Therefore, maintaining a relatively high walking pace capacity plays a positive role in boosting elderly people’s sports capacities and reducing their medical expenses.
Key words: sports medicine；walking pace；elderly people；sports capacity；medical expense |
