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Can taiji ball be used for fitness for the elderly?
Fitness ball, also known as brain ball and Tai Chi ball, is one of the traditional folk fitness equipment in China. There are marble or granite, stainless steel and copper, and some only use two or three walnuts as balls. Does Tai Ji Chuan have many benefits for the elderly? What are the benefits of fitness for the elderly? Let's take a look at Baibai Security Internet Cafe with everyone.

First, exercise the activity ability of wrist, finger joints and upper limb muscles. To turn the fitness ball in the palm of your hand, you must rely on the strength of your fingers, wrists and arms. Through the cooperation of your fingers, palms and arms, and the tacit understanding of your heart and hands, you can make the two balls run freely. It can enhance the mobility of fingers, palms, wrists and arms for a long time, flex and stretch flexibly, promote the movement of fingers, wrists, elbow joints, shoulder joints and the whole upper limb muscles, and prevent upper limb joints from degeneration, numbness, weakness, trembling and grip strength decline.

The second is to dredge meridians, reconcile yin and yang, unblock qi and blood and exercise bones and muscles. Meridian is the channel through which the human body runs qi and blood, connects the viscera and limbs, communicates with the inside and outside, and regulates various parts. Fingertips are the intersection of the three yin meridians of the hand and the three yang meridians of the hand, and there are important acupoints on the hand, such as Huigu, Shaoshang, Shangyang, Laogong and Houxi. When the fitness ball rotates in the hand, it can massage and stimulate these acupoints, and affect the nerves inside and outside the arm, until the shoulder, back and axillary lymph nodes, thus affecting the whole body, dredging the meridians, reconciling yin and yang, and dredging qi and blood. At the same time, it can also make the phalanx, metacarpal, forearm, forearm and even scapula move.

The third is to strengthen the brain and improve intelligence, delay the degeneration of brain cells and prevent Alzheimer's disease. There are abundant nerve centers in the brain, which are interrelated and stimulate each other, thus becoming the command center of various life activities of the human body.