Table tennis may help prevent and improve dementia!?

The experiment is being taken fully into serious consideration. For all middle-aged and older people worried about dementia, let’s play table tennis!

　The general incorporated association T-NEXT, founded by former Japan men’s national team head coach Yosuke Kurashima (headquarters: Tokyo; representative director: Yosuke Kurashima), has been working to improve the level of coaches such as those with S-class coaching licenses and to develop the environment. At the same time, it is also working on a joint study on the prevention and improvement of dementia through table tennis. This will likely become a challenge that not only the table tennis world, but people around the world, can use to better understand the wonderful qualities of the sport of table tennis.

　In the table tennis world, it has long been said that “if you play table tennis, you’re less likely to become forgetful. It’s a sport that’s good for both the body and the mind.” Now, that is about to be scientifically explained. With the cooperation of MITS Technologies Co., Ltd. (representative: Yasue Mitsukura), which has advanced brainwave analysis technology, T-NEXT announced the results of its first-stage survey on July 31.

Table tennis is an “exercise that activates the brain.” A joint study on dementia prevention and improvement confirmed activation of the prefrontal cortex. Table tennis has a unique strength of its own

　In a preliminary test involving four healthy older adults in their 60s to 80s, clear changes in brain activity and activation were confirmed in the prefrontal cortex of all subjects after playing table tennis. The “prefrontal cortex” is the highest part of the brain, responsible for thinking, making judgments, and using memory.