Benefits of Table Tennis for Brain Health Maintenance and Prevention of Dementia

Table tennis is an extremely popular sport throughout the world as it requires no expensive equipment, specialized amenities, or physical contact among players, and pace of play can be adapted to allow participation by players all skill levels, ages, abilities. It aerobic-dominant driven primarily phosphagen system because rallies are relatively brief (several seconds) separated longer rest periods. Several studies have shown that interventions including table help prevent cognitive decline dementia. Accordingly, present paper provides overview basic demands tennis, reviews previous reporting improvements in brain health across different non-clinical clinical populations, critically evaluates usefulness intervention for prevention This review suggests could a powerful strategy dementia elderly.