AI healthcare startup VivaLabs (CEO Hayoung Lim) announced that it held the "2nd Senior Wellness Conference" at the Jangsu Academy Hall in Seoul on November 30th. This event, designed to foster senior exercise professionals and address the growing demand for scientifically evidence-based senior exercise education, featured practical training. This was the second such conference, following the inaugural event held in August.
This year's conference, themed "How Wellness Works – From Prevention to Treatment, Rehabilitation, and Fitness," featured speakers from orthopedic surgeons, sports science professors, and senior exercise experts, sharing medical and sports science background knowledge and practical application methods to consider when guiding seniors through exercise.
In the opening session, VivaLabs Director Yoon Ji-hyun explained the "integrated structure of senior wellness," noting that with the advent of a super-aging society, seniors are emerging as a key consumer group in the wellness industry. She also emphasized the importance of systematic intervention by exercise experts to mitigate the risk of sarcopenia in older adults, emphasizing the need for an integrated approach that seamlessly integrates treatment, rehabilitation, and exercise.
In the first session, Kim Ho-kyung, a sports therapist (Ace Exercise Science Center), presented a step-by-step approach to improving individual functions based on drug treatment when guiding exercise in patients with Parkinson's disease under the topic of 'Parkinson's Disease and Exercise: Interventions Based on Motor Control.'
In the second session, Professor Moon Seong-eun (Department of Sports Science, Mokpo National University) explained the impact of geriatric kyphosis on breathing, shoulder movement, and balance ability, and demonstrated an exercise intervention based on correcting breathing patterns and restoring thoracic spine movement patterns.
In the third session, Professor Kwak Jae-man (Department of Orthopedics, Eulji University College of Medicine) emphasized the importance of geriatric pain management based on medical evidence, highlighting the need to identify disease risk signs and implement safe exercise interventions. He also predicted that the social role of exercise specialists will grow further amidst the increasing demand for medical and rehabilitation services among the elderly.
The panel discussion that followed brought together a diverse audience, including exercise therapists, physical therapists, and athletes, to discuss the challenges facing senior health care.
A VivaLabs representative mentioned the growing demand for senior-specific exercise training and said, “We will train and expand senior exercise experts by providing practical knowledge based on medical evidence.”
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