For people with epilepsy, it is important to focus on the way of exercise, and nowadays aerobic exercise is more suitable for people with epilepsy, such as yoga, jogging, tai chi, walking and so on. The above exercises also need epileptic patients according to their own system accordingly. It is better for epilepsy patients to travel in a group when they go out for exercise and try to avoid acting alone. Epilepsy patients should carry enough anti-epilepsy drugs with them when traveling and take them consistently. For epilepsy patients who have seizures due to sleep, it is not advisable to travel long distances.
Exercise is not only beneficial to the health of epilepsy patients, but also can reduce their sense of inferiority, reduce the chance of seizures, and enhance confidence in overcoming the disease. As for which physical exercises are suitable for people with epilepsy. The choice is mainly based on the age, physical fitness and interests of epilepsy patients. It is not advisable to participate in sports activities that are aggressive and have strong punching lines. There are also some strenuous sports, like long-distance running and long-distance swimming.
The most important thing is that epileptic patients should not be long time brain exercise, like playing chess, Xiangqi, these activities that require a high degree of brain, which can easily lead to excessive use of the patient's brain, inducing seizures. Experts pointed out that the age of small, old and sick and poor physical condition of patients can participate in non-high-intensity sports, such as badminton, table tennis, rope skipping, aerobics, etc. young, physical condition of patients can participate in some of the larger volume of movement, intensity of slightly stronger sports, such as basketball, soccer. Don't overdo it with exercise in epilepsy, it's important to recognize that!
1, walking
This is the best exercise method, every day after dinner, patients can go to the park with their families to walk, just walk slowly can, not only can eliminate food, but also provide a small amount of exercise. In addition plus stay a day, the evening can breathe fresh air in the park, conducive to good health, in addition to chatting and communication with family members, so that patients open their hearts.
2, jogging
This is an upgraded version of walking, but walking has not been able to meet the patient can choose. But be careful to not gasp for breath, not feel uncomfortable, not feel dizzy, not feel chest tightness, the highest heart rate of 120 ~ 130 times per minute is appropriate. Jogging can enhance cardiopulmonary function, promote blood circulation and promote sleep.
3, taijiquan
This is a traditional Chinese fitness exercise. Just to learn more trouble, if you can find a good teacher, then learn to play tai chi is still very good, not only can exercise the body can also be cultivated. Physical fitness can play a full set of simplified taijiquan, less physical fitness can be practiced in sections. You can choose individual movements and practice them over and over again without feeling physically tired as the basic principle.
4, fishing
Suitable for fishing in the countryside, often go to the countryside to walk, itself is a kind of exercise; secondly, the water riverside, the air is exceptionally fresh, high anion content, let a person feel at ease, relaxed and happy, conducive to the human body's metabolism, can play a calming, lowering the pressure, reduce fatigue role, epileptic patients are very beneficial. Fishing can achieve the best health realm without the trouble of thinking inside, without the body fatigue outside.
5, dancing
Experimental studies have shown that even if the slow step dance in the social dance, its energy consumption is also in a quiet state of 3 to 4 times; Secondly, when dancing, the dancers have to be coordinated with the music, you must be fully concentrated, focused on the music, the dance, coupled with relaxing and enjoyable musical accompaniment and charming lighting backing, both a kind of enjoyment of the beauty of the people, and more people intoxicated by them. Now square dance is also the favorite of middle-aged and elderly women.
6, travel
Elderly people can use their free time to go out and travel, more activities, there are certain benefits to health, but must pay attention to sunscreen, poor physical fitness of elderly friends is best to choose to go out in the evening when the sun goes down to walk, breathe the fresh air. Tourism can make a person full of nature's exotic scenery and history, culture, customs and other human landscapes, so that people get the spiritual enjoyment; at the same time, in the natural scenery, breathe the fresh air, so that the body and mind a short wander, more people can get relaxed.