Articles

Benefits

• How Does Playing Ping Pong Help Your Body?

• Top 10 Health Benefits of Ping Pong / Table Tennis

Anti Aging

• Ping-Pong as the Fountain of Youth

• Zen and the Art of Table Tennis: Navigating my Late-life Crisis

• Eye on the Ball: Table Tennis as a Pro-Health Form of Leisure-Time Physical Activity

Degenerative Brain Disease

• Helping People with Dementia Thrive with Ping Pong

• Study finds picking up a ping-pong paddle may benefit people with Parkinson’s

• Playing Ping Pong May Significantly Improve Parkinson’s Symptoms

• Ping Pong for Parkinson's

• Parkinson patients play ping pong to combat disease symptoms

• Table Tennis Program May Ease Motor Symptoms in Parkinson’s, Early Study Shows

• A study of 164 Korean women age 60 and older showed that table tennis improved cognitive function more than dancing, walking, gymnastics or resistance training

• Fighting fit: How table tennis helps elderly live well with dementia

Mental Health

• Sweat it out? The effects of physical exercise on cognition and behavior in children and adults with ADHD: a systematic literature review

• Ping Pong is Useful in Killing ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts)

• Emotional Benefits of Exercise Greater for Older Americans

• This Is Your Brain on Ping Pong

 Medical Journals

• Allard, F. (1993). Cognition, expertise, and motor performance. In Advances in psychology (Vol. 102, pp. 17-34). North-Holland.
  

• Balardin, J. B., Zimeo Morais, G. A., Furucho, R. A., Trambaiolli, L., Vanzella, P., Biazoli Jr, C., & Sato, J. R. (2017). Imaging brain function with functional near-infrared spectroscopy in unconstrained environments. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 11, 258.
  

• Biernat, E., Buchholtz, S., & Krzepota, J. (2018). Eye on the ball: table tennis as a pro-health form of leisure-time physical activity. International journal of environmental research and public health, 15(4), 738.
  

• Claesson, I. M., Ståhle, A., Lökk, J., & Grooten, W. J. (2018). Somatosensory Focused Balance Training without cues can improve balance and gait in early Parkinson’s disease–a randomised pilot study. European Journal of Physiotherapy, 20(2), 67-73.

• Duran, J. C., Duran, J. P., & Delgadillo, A. L. (2017). Neuroplasticity during motor rehabilitation in Parkinson's disease. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 381, 224.

• Fauzi, R. A., Safari, I., Alif, M. N., & Akin, Y. (2020, May). Sports and Health: Keeping Life Active with Table Tennis on Parkinson’s patients. In Proceeding ICOPESH (International Conference on Physical Education, Sport, and Health) (pp. 72-76).
  

• Gao, Q., Huang, Y., Xiang, Y., Yang, C., Zhang, M., Guo, J., ... & Chen, H. (2020). Altered dynamics of functional connectivity density associated with early and advanced stages of motor training in tennis and table tennis athletes. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 1-12.

• Guo, Z., Li, A., & Yu, L. (2017). “Neural efficiency” of athletes’ brain during visuo-spatial task: an fMRI study on table tennis players. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 11, 72.

• Hung, T. M., Spalding, T. W., Santa Maria, D. L., & Hatfield, B. D. (2004). Assessment of reactive motor performance with event-related brain potentials: attention processes in elite table tennis players. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 26(2), 317-337.
  

• Inoue, K. (2020). Table tennis exercise for patients with Parkinson disease: a prospective pilot study (485).

• Jasim, S. S., Kadhim, R. A., & Howaidi, H. H. (2020). Determination of the Best Level of Cognition for Category-10 Table-Tennis Athletes with Special Needs. Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, 11(2), 2280-2285.

• Jeoung, B. J. (2014). Relationships of exercise with frailty, depression, and cognitive function in older women. Journal of exercise rehabilitation, 10(5), 291.

• Olsson, K., Franzén, E., & Johansson, A. (2020). A Pilot Study of the Feasibility and Effects of Table Tennis Training in Parkinson Disease. Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation, 2(3), 100064.

• Raab, M., Masters, R. S., & Maxwell, J. P. (2005). Improving the ‘how’and ‘what’decisions of elite table tennis players. Human movement science, 24(3), 326-344.

• Richards, M., Hardy, R., & Wadsworth, M. E. (2003). Does active leisure protect cognition? Evidence from a national birth cohort. Social science & medicine, 56(4), 785-792.

• Ripoll, H., Fleurance, P., & Cazeneuve, D. (1987). ANALYSIS OF VISUAL PATTERNS OK TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS. In Eye Movements from Physiology to Cognition (pp. 616-617). Elsevier.

• Wang, Y., Lu, Y., Deng, Y., Gu, N., Parviainen, T., & Zhou, C. (2019). Predicting domain-specific actions in expert table tennis players activates the semantic brain network. NeuroImage, 200, 482-489.

• Wolf, S., Brölz, E., Scholz, D., Ramos-Murguialday, A., Keune, P. M., Hautzinger, M., ... & Strehl, U. (2014). Winning the game: brain processes in expert, young elite and amateur table tennis players. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 8, 370.

• Wolf, S., Brölz, E., Keune, P. M., Wesa, B., Hautzinger, M., Birbaumer, N., & Strehl, U. (2015). Motor skill failure or flow-experience? Functional brain asymmetry and brain connectivity in elite and amateur table tennis players. Biological psychology, 105, 95-105.

• Zou, Y. M., Tan, J. P., Li, N., Yang, J. S., Yu, B. C., Yu, J. M., ... & Wang, L. N. (2015). Do physical exercise and reading reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease? A cross-sectional study on factors associated with Parkinson’s disease in elderly Chinese veterans. Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 11, 695.

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