Three dimensional motion analyses for rehabilitation version of Awa Odori exercise and the expectancy of physical effects.

Awa Odori Exercise -Rehabilitation version- was developed in 2006 for the new trial of physical exercise for the aging and the impaired person with lower balance per- formance in Tokushima prefecture, Japan. Public relations of this exercise had been spreading over Tokushima since then. The cha racteristics of the exercise were highly familiar with most of people in Tokushima because of popularity in original 'Awa Odori'. This study proposed the efficacies of Awa Odori Exercise as a rehabilitation exercise. This exercise expected the flexible balance reinforcements and the substitution for walking training with prevention of fall, bedridden and participating restriction for the old peo- ple, also promoting the health in Tokushima. J. Med. Invest. 58 : 259-263, August, 2011