PMID- 10776461
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20000516
LR  - 20220408
IS  - 0019-5499 (Print)
IS  - 0019-5499 (Linking)
VI  - 43
IP  - 4
DP  - 1999 Oct
TI  - Yoga training and motor speed based on a finger tapping task.
PG  - 458-62
AB  - A finger tapping task was used to assess motor speed (MS) of both hands in 53 
      adults and 152 children before and after yoga training and in 38 adults of a 
      non-yoga (control) group. All subjects were right hand dominant. The 30-second 
      tapping speed (TS) test was considered as three time intervals, i.e. 0-10 second 
      (TS1), 10-20 seconds (TS2) and 20-30 seconds (TS3). There was a significant 
      (Student's t-test) increase in all three TS values following 10 days of yoga in 
      children and 30 days of yoga in adults. However for both groups at baseline and 
      final assessments, TS2 and TS3 were significantly lower than TS1. Hence the TS 
      was increased after yoga training during the first 10-seconds of the test but not 
      during the next 20 seconds. These results suggest an increase in motor speed for 
      repetitive finger movements following yoga training, but not in strength or 
      endurance, as the increase was not sustained over 30 sec.
FAU - Dash, M
AU  - Dash M
AD  - Vivekananda Kendra Yoga Research Foundation, Chamarajpet, Bangalore.
FAU - Telles, S
AU  - Telles S
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - India
TA  - Indian J Physiol Pharmacol
JT  - Indian journal of physiology and pharmacology
JID - 0374707
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Case-Control Studies
MH  - Child
MH  - Female
MH  - Fingers
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Motor Activity/*physiology
MH  - Physical Education and Training
MH  - *Yoga
EDAT- 2000/04/25 09:00
MHDA- 2000/05/20 09:00
CRDT- 2000/04/25 09:00
PHST- 2000/04/25 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2000/05/20 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2000/04/25 09:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Indian J Physiol Pharmacol. 1999 Oct;43(4):458-62.