Os benefícios do exercício fisico na saúde do idoso no isolamento social em tempos de pandemia

Abstract

The emergence of the new corona virus in China, spread a disease (COVID- 19), which spread around the world in a short time, leading the World Health

Organization to declare a new global pandemic. To contain the dissemination of the corona virus, some public health measures were implemented around the world, causing a very large impact on society, making it difficult to practice regular physical activity. Physical inactivity accumulated over weeks and months can lead to immune system dysfunction. However, our objective is: To verify, through a literature review, the benefits of physical exercise on the health of the elderly during isolation during a pandemic period. For the construction of this literature review, a bibliographical research was used as a methodological procedure. A survey of 42 articles was carried out to understand how physical health was impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic period, where positive physiological responses provided by physical exercise, which directly influence the immune system from the chronic adaptations generated by its practice regularly. It is concluded that a physiological executive offers positive results for an elderly population, the main one being a change in quality of life due to the improvement of both immunity and the physiological physical health and functionality that exercise produces.