What is pickleball? What are the advantages? Why is it suitable for both adults and children?

Pickleball is a new sport suitable for all ages and can train the coordination of limbs, hands and eyes. It is a swing sport very suitable for the elderly. Pickleball uses a wooden racket to hit the ball and combines the characteristics of three ball sports: tennis, badminton and table tennis. The sport is not too intense but requires coordination of the feet, legs, arms, hands and eyes. Long-term training can improve reaction speed, challenge the brain to think quickly, increase muscle strength and enhance balance.

Luodong Bo'ai Hospital established a pickleball club to promote the sport last year. Starting this year, the Luodong Bo'ai Hospital Health and Medical Charity Service Team will take advantage of the monthly free home clinic visits in South Australia to bring this emerging sport to the remote areas of South Australia! On the 15th, Luodong Bo'ai Hospital collaborated with the Yilan County Pickleball Committee, King Car Cultural and Educational Foundation and others to hold a pickleball experience event at Nan'ao Bihou Elementary School to encourage residents to learn new sports and get moving together.

Pickleball is a gentle sport that can activate the limbs

Lei Menghuan, a decision-making committee member of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Luodong Bo'ai Hospital, said that since last year, they have promoted pickleball in the hospital and established a pickleball club to encourage medical colleagues in the hospital to relax by participating in this sport, attracting many sports enthusiasts to play pickleball together. Pickleball is a gentle sport that can activate the limbs and is not difficult to learn. In order to allow more people in need to experience the fun of this sport, Luodong Boai Hospital will combine its promotional activities with the monthly Nan'ao Rural Health Charity Event, and co-organize a health screening and pickleball experience conference with the Yilan County Pickleball Committee, King Car Cultural and Educational Foundation, Nan'ao Township Bihou Elementary School, and Bihou Village.

"The ball is not going very fast. When you see the ball coming, just swing it according to your instinct!" Decision-making committee member Lei Menghuan led the cardiovascular medicine team and the pickleball club to teach South Australia residents how to swing the racket with a twist of the waist. Residents who were introduced to pickleball for the first time were happy to learn and try it out, and there was constant laughter on the scene. Lei Menghuan, a decision-making committee member, said that in addition to exercising the limbs, pickleball can also help prevent brain decline in the elderly, reduce all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality, and relieve depression, stress mental problems and cognitive decline in the elderly.

Pickleball reshapes lives and prevents disease

Breaking away from hospitals and medical treatment, actively preventing diseases through good living habits, exercise and diet, and integrating health-promoting methods into life are the core of lifestyle medicine that Luodong Bo'ai Hospital has been promoting in recent years. This time, the medical staff of Luodong Boai Hospital also hope to bring good sports to South Australia, integrate pickleball into life, and look forward to injecting vitality into the elderly in South Australia.

Luodong Boai Hospital will combine its promotional activities with the monthly Nan'ao rural health charity event, and co-organize a health screening and pickleball experience conference with the Yilan County Pickleball Committee, King Car Cultural and Educational Foundation, Nan'ao Township Bihou Elementary School, and Bihou Village. (Photo provided by Luodong Boai Hospital)